[Techtalk] Need some source code help - getting it

[Conor Daly]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 08:24:26AM -0500 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Gehring, Bernard thought:
> I am taking an operating systems class and all of the projects will be 
> in linux. Our first project and introduction to linux is adding system 
> calls to the kernel, recompiling and running programs to use those 
> system calls. I have borrowed CDs to install redhat 7.2-1, but didn't 
> get the source code. My linux box does not have a connection to the 
> internet or any network and when I attempt to download the source rpm 
> from redhat on my windows box, it attempts to run the program, can't, 
> and then seems to loose track of the source it just downloaded. Any 
> suggestions for a good place to get the source for redhat 7.2-1 that 
> I will be able to download to a windows 2000 box, transfer to cd then 
> install on my linux box. Thanks for any help you can provide.

AFAIR, if you Shift-click on a link you get the option to save the link to
disk.


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