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Re: binary files




Good point, I'd forgotten a few guys distro'd like this.

making it executable and ./whatever.bin would alow you to run it and
it'll untar/rar/shar after license agreement and possibly some
configuration options.

Thus spake Travis Crump (pretzalz@techhouse.org):

> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 13:37:36 -0500
> From: Travis Crump <pretzalz@techhouse.org>
> To: Debian User List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Re: binary files
> X-Mailing-List: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> archive/latest/248020
> 
> Robert L. Harris wrote:
> >
> >.bin?  Isn't that a mac format generally?  what does "file whatever.bin"
> >say?
> >
> >Thus spake David and Dana Evans (ddevans999@attbi.com):
> >>
> >>I know now how to install a "whatever.tar.gz" file but how do I install a
> >>"whatever.bin" file?
> 
> Sun distributes their java installer as a .bin.  If it is like that, it 
> is self-installing, just make it executable and run the file(ie. chmod 
> a+x whatever.bin && ./whatever.bin)
> 
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