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 6.05.03, you might make a directory called spec6.05.03 using the command
mkdir spec6.05.03.
Change to the new directory
with
cd spec6.05.03.
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