tar is much friendlier not, but ...

[George Gambill]

Thank you all very very much for all the responces.  It worked.

FYI,
Copied (Win 2000)a fresh rdesktop-1.1.0.tar.gz to a DOS floppy

On Linux (as root), mounted the floppy (mount -t vfat /dev/fd0
/mnt/floppydos)

Using the GUI (low comfort zone with cp), I coppied (copy and paste) the
file to /tmp/rdesktop/rdesktop-1.1.0.tar.gz

At the command line (in /tmp/rdesktop/), issued the command: tar -xzvf
rdesktop-1.1.0.tar.gz

tar did a lot of good stuff very quickly.

Found a sub directory (of /tmp/rdesktop/)    drwx------ rdesktop-1.1.0

Changed (cd) to /tmp/rdesktop/rdesktop-1.1.0

Found a lot of good stuff including a file: Makefile

Issued the command: make

A lot more good stuff took place all be it not as fast as the earlier tar
command.

Now the command "ls -l | more" showes a lot of files and a directory crypto
(drwx------)

Among the files are:
   -rwxr-xr-a   1 root     root   (skip the size)  rdesktop    ("rdesktop"
in green)
   -rw-------     1 1881   1881  (skip the size)  rdesktop.c
   -rw-------     1 1881   1881  (skip the size)  rdesktop.h
   -rw-r--r--     1 1881   1881  (skip the size)  rdesktop.o

Now the new opportunity (we never have problems, only opportunities)

When I enter the command "rdesktop xxxxxxxx" where xxxxxxxx is the name of
the Windows 2000 Terminal Server, I get:

-bash: rdesktop: command not found

I get the same resultes without xxxxxxxx which makes sense

FWIW I can ping the Terminal Server by name (xxxxxxxx) and it does respond
well.

I read the -rwxr-xr-x on rdesktop  (in green) as being executable.

Where am I going wrong?

Thanking you all in advance.

George