download source code on Linux

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Wed May 14 16:51:14 UTC 2008


On May 14, 2008, at 9:38 AM, Onkar wrote:
> But I am finding no files with extension .c or .h
> [image: File:]generic.aa<ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/6.1-RELEASE/kernels/generic.aa 
> >
> 1392
[ ... ]
>
> what are these ??

They are a .tgz split up into pieces (via split).  You can reassemble  
via:

   cat generic.a* | tar zxf -

...but some people find using CVS/cvsup easier.

-- 
-Chuck



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