5.3.1. - Extracting the Distribution
If you have made a spec administrator's account,
you should become that user (or the root user), either by logging in
or by using the set-user id command
su specadm.
You can then change to the spec administrator's
home directory
and use it as a place
to hold the distribution files.
Make a subdirectory to receive the current version of
spec.
If the distribution is numbered release 4.04.01,
you might make a directory called
spec4.04.01
using the command
mkdir spec4.04.01.
Change to the new directory
with
cd spec4.04.01.
The distribution will be in
tar
format.
Usually the distribution is obtained as a tar file via internet.
If the distribution arrives via magnetic media or a CD-ROM,
the command to extract the tar file should
be printed on the distribution label.
For a tar file, the command to extract the files is
tar xvf specdist.tar
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