how do you work with a .bin file?
 

i am setting up a cs server on linux, and i have all the files i need. i just dont know how to uncompress a .bin file. how do i make this work? im running rh 9. thank you

Usually .bin files are directly executable (i.e. they're not compressed). Just 'chmod +x filename.bin' to make it executable and then type the filename to run it. You might have to do ./filename.bin if . isn't in your path.

this is what i get as a response when i type this
chmod +x hlds_1_3111_full.bin
chmod: fialed to get attributes of " hlds.....bin" : no such file or directory
to make sure the file was there i even did a ls and it was there. so i have no clue whats going on. any clue? please help. thank you

check the permissions of that file with ls -l

if it set for only root write and execute, u can either logon as root and do chmod or just change the permissions of the file chmod 777 hld.... and then do ./hdl...

also, to ensure you don't misspell the filename, type the first few letters of the file and then press TAB to use the autocomplete feature

You could try "chmod 755 hlds_1_3111_full.bin". If your using a shell that allows tabbed auto completion then just type the first couple characters of the filename and then ./hlds_1_3111_full.bin after you made the file executable.

well, i got it to be executable, and now i get this new error. it goes through the readme, says do you wish to install? yes or no? blah blah blah. i type yes, then it says this:

extracting /usr/steam/hlds_1_1120_full.tgz...
hlds_1_3111_full.bin: error extracting payload, no such file or directory

anyone know whats going on here? maybe i have to re-download it. but its giving me that its there, and that its executable, and that its the full file size. should i just re-download it? thank you

ah, figured it out. i had to make the directory /usr/steam and then it moved itself into the right place. thank you all for you help. laters

NICE
 

Thank you for pointing that out... I've been experiencing the same problem and thought it was hopeless until I read your post.

Thanks again.