unpack the source tarball on Windows

[Mensanator]

I'm looking for the Turtle Graphics Demos (apparently not included in
the Windows install).

So I downloaded the bzipped source tarball.

I've got Cygwin installed and assume it has the needed utilities.

What would I type at the Cygwin prompt to unpack this puppy?

 

[Gabriel Genellina]

I'm looking for the Turtle Graphics Demos (apparently not included in
the Windows install).

So I downloaded the bzipped source tarball.

I've got Cygwin installed and assume it has the needed utilities.

What would I type at the Cygwin prompt to unpack this puppy?

Are you asking how to decompress a .bz2 file? Instead of cygwin, I prefer
native executables. You can get one from:
http://www.bzip.org/downloads.html
I think you're interested in the Demo\turtle directory.

 

[Mensanator]

Are you asking how to decompress a .bz2 file? Instead of cygwin, I prefer  
native executables. You can get one from:http://www.bzip.org/downloads.html
I think you're interested in the Demo\turtle directory.

Thanks. Still had to untar the ball, but I also downloaded a
trial version of Winzip which took care of that.

Anyway, I got what I was looking for, so thanks again.

 

[drobinow]

I'm looking for the Turtle Graphics Demos (apparently not included in
the Windows install).

So I downloaded the bzipped source tarball.

I've got Cygwin installed and assume it has the needed utilities.

What would I type at the Cygwin prompt to unpack this puppy?

I'm not familiar with the Turtle Graphics Demo so I'm just guessing at
the name of the tarball. You'll use something like this:

bzip2 -cd TurtleGraphicsDemo.tar.gz | tar xf -

 

[Mensanator]

I'm not familiar with the Turtle Graphics Demo so I'm just guessing at
the name of the tarball.

I don't know if there's a seperate enity as such.
What I got was a directory within the Python source
Python-2.6.1.tar.bz2

You'll use something like this:

bzip2 -cd TurtleGraphicsDemo.tar.gz | tar xf -

Thanks, I'll try that next time (when the Winzip 45 day
trial expires).

 

[alex23]

Thanks, I'll try that next time (when the Winzip 45 day
trial expires).

Better still, grab the freec 7-Zip: http://www.7-zip.org/

Supported formats:

* Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
* Unpacking only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH,
LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR and Z.

 

[Michael Torrie]

Thanks. Still had to untar the ball, but I also downloaded a
trial version of Winzip which took care of that.

Right. The proper command is:

tar -xvjf tarball.tar.bz2

The recommended GUI for all things archival on Windows I think has to be
7zip. And it's not cursed shareware either. Open source.