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Posted by

David Haley USA (3,881 posts) Bio

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Reply #15 on Fri 31 Oct 2003 09:50 PM (UTC)

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Maybe you shouldn't be using Cygwin...... but, well, if you insist. :)

I think that Nick has a guide here that gives a pretty good explanation of how to set things up.

http://www.gammon.com.au/smaug/installingcygwin.htm

http://www.gammon.com.au/smaug/howtocompile.htm

I suggest that if you truly do want to venture down this path, you read those FULLY and follow them to the letter.

To answer your question, no, don't put the SMAUG stuff into Cygwin's source dir... that's the source dir for Cygwin stuff. You probably want to make a subdir "smaug" inside your home directory, and stick things in there.

MCCP is MUD client compression protocol, or something like that. It takes text, compresses it, sends out the compressed version, and the client decompresses it. It saves bandwidth (both on server and client) and so is generally a good thing. It's also fast enough where the extra processor load on the server is not signficiant. It just needs to be implemented... and that's not always easy, especially if you don't know how to code.

David Haley aka Ksilyan
Head Programmer,
Legends of the Darkstone

http://david.the-haleys.org

Posted by

USER007 (124 posts) Bio

Date

Reply #16 on Sat 01 Nov 2003 12:44 AM (UTC)

Message

Thanks for the address but I keep getting these errors on cygwin:
$ tar xzf smaug1.4a_mxp.tar
tar (child): smaug1.4a_mxp.tgz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Any help on how to fix this or what to do?

Posted by

David Haley USA (3,881 posts) Bio

Date

Reply #17 on Sat 01 Nov 2003 01:37 AM (UTC)

Message

If you can't open the file because it can't find the file, then obviously it's not there and you should put it there. :)

Put the tar file wherever it is you're running that command. To find out, type "pwd" at the Cygwin prompt - that will give you the Cygwin path. You'll need to translate that into a Windows path.

David Haley aka Ksilyan
Head Programmer,
Legends of the Darkstone

http://david.the-haleys.org

Posted by

USER007 (124 posts) Bio

Date

Reply #18 on Sat 01 Nov 2003 01:53 AM (UTC)

Amended on Sat 01 Nov 2003 02:41 PM (UTC) by USER007

Message

Lol. I put it in the home/owner direc and I typed ls and it found the file but it still gaves me the errors when I typed the tar thing. And I did what the guide told me to do, any other help? And what do you mean by translate windows path, as in: C:\cygwin... etc.?

Posted by

David Haley USA (3,881 posts) Bio

Date

Reply #19 on Sat 01 Nov 2003 09:53 AM (UTC)

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Well obviously you didn't do something right, since it's not working...

Could you paste what you get when you typed ls? You're probably not entering the tar command in the right spot, or you're not using the right file, or something to that effect.

ls isn't a search command, by the way, it just lists the directory contents.

Translating paths means changing:
/home/myUser/something
to
c:\[cygwin]\home\myUser\something
or something similar.

David Haley aka Ksilyan
Head Programmer,
Legends of the Darkstone

http://david.the-haleys.org

Posted by

USER007 (124 posts) Bio

Date

Reply #20 on Sat 01 Nov 2003 01:31 PM (UTC)

Message

Heres what it says:

Owner@Anavel~
$ls
smaug1.4a_mxp.tar

Owner@Anavel~
$ tar xzf smaug1.4a_mxp.tar
tar (child): smaug1.4a_mxp.tgz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Do I have to type the direc and then the tar thing?

Posted by

David Haley USA (3,881 posts) Bio

Date

Reply #21 on Sat 01 Nov 2003 09:06 PM (UTC)

Message

Just look at what it's telling you... it's saying it can't open smaug1.4a_mxp.tgz, not smaug1.4a_mxp.tar - which means that your file is not there.

You probably unzipped the .tgz file and put the tar file there.

If you don't have a .tgz file and can't find one (even though that should be the standard Unix distribution format), you can try entering
tar xf smaug1.4a_mxp.tar
instead. Note that without the z, it won't think it's zipped.

Here, you have a .tgz file, which is probably the one you downloaded but unzipped:
http://www.gammon.com.au/downloads/dlsmaug.htm
So you might want to check that out. You'll obviously have to adjust your file accordingly.

David Haley aka Ksilyan
Head Programmer,
Legends of the Darkstone

http://david.the-haleys.org

Posted by

USER007 (124 posts) Bio

Date

Reply #22 on Sat 01 Nov 2003 11:46 PM (UTC)

Message

Thanks that solved that problem but I hate to say this, it gave me another error. : |

Owner@Starblazer ~
$ tar xf smaug1.4a_mxp.tar
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 hea
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Posted by

David Haley USA (3,881 posts) Bio

Date

Reply #23 on Sun 02 Nov 2003 01:03 AM (UTC)

Message

Then use the .tgz file and use the original instruction, like the guide says. I'm not sure how you got the .tar there instead of the .tgz in the first place...

David Haley aka Ksilyan
Head Programmer,
Legends of the Darkstone

http://david.the-haleys.org

Posted by

Nick Gammon Australia (23,173 posts) Bio Forum Administrator

Date

Reply #24 on Sun 02 Nov 2003 09:24 PM (UTC)

Message

Despite the suffix it might still be compressed. Try:

tar xzf smaug1.4a_mxp.tar

rather than

tar xf smaug1.4a_mxp.tar

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com

Posted by

Samson USA (683 posts) Bio

Date

Reply #25 on Mon 03 Nov 2003 11:32 AM (UTC)

Message

And it's entirely possible his browser renamed it on him. If you don't watch, sometimes that will happen when there's something on the system that's associated with the particular type of file. Winzip associations for .tgz, .gz, and .tar.gz often end up trying to be named with just a .tar extention. Leaving you with what Nick said. A .tar file that's actually still compressed. Rather annoying behaviour :P

Posted by

USER007 (124 posts) Bio

Date

Reply #26 on Mon 03 Nov 2003 07:49 PM (UTC)

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I tried what Nick said and I got this:

Owner@Starblazer ~
$ tar xzf smaug1.4a_mxp.tar

Owner@Starblazer ~
$

This is all it did. It took 5 secs for it to proccess the tar thing with no result. :|

Posted by

Nick Gammon Australia (23,173 posts) Bio Forum Administrator

Date

Reply #27 on Tue 04 Nov 2003 04:13 AM (UTC)

Message

Quote:

And it's entirely possible his browser renamed it on him. If you don't watch, sometimes that will happen ...

It almost always happens to me. One of Windows' quirks. The "rename the file to something you didn't want" function. :P

Quote:

I tried what Nick said and I got this:

Owner@Starblazer ~
$ tar xzf smaug1.4a_mxp.tar

Owner@Starblazer ~
$

No error message? Sounds like it worked. Do a "ls" and see if the directory that was in the archive is now there.

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com

Posted by

USER007 (124 posts) Bio

Date

Reply #28 on Tue 04 Nov 2003 03:50 PM (UTC)

Amended on Tue 04 Nov 2003 06:47 PM (UTC) by USER007

Message

OMG! It worked! Thanks :o Ok now I'm going to use smaugwiz instead of the one that I just opened. Just one problem... I can't open the SmaugWizard Builder folder even though I type ls. I typed cd SmaugWizard Builder and it gave me something about bash. Do I have to tar a file for cd to work on it?

=Edit= Ok nvm for some reason it wasn't working th first time now it is... :o

Posted by

David Haley USA (3,881 posts) Bio

Date

Reply #29 on Tue 04 Nov 2003 07:33 PM (UTC)

Message

On Unix based systems you need to be exact. This is a problem most notably for case-sensitive files:
cd MyDirectory
is NOT the same at all as:
cd myDirectory
is not the same as
cd mydirectory

So you just need to watch out for that. It's probably why your directory wasn't working.

I would suggest that you do all file manipulation under Windows explorer, in your cygwin/home/myuser/blablabla directories, and then only use cygwin to compile and run. No point in creating additional headaches for yourself.

David Haley aka Ksilyan
Head Programmer,
Legends of the Darkstone

http://david.the-haleys.org

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