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# 4.1 NIST Directory Description

This directory contains a series of EMC releases in various formats. The releases are dated according to the convention:

emc-DD-Mon-YYYY

where

DD is the two-digit day number, Mon is the three-letter month abbreviation, and YYYY is the four-digit year.

So, emc-03-Mar-1999 signifies the March 3, 1999 release. This date will be used in the examples below. There will be at least two sets of releases, possibly more. The most recent is the one you should download, unless you know otherwise.

The suffixes indicate the type of file:

.txt The release notes for the associated release. Read this first to decide if you want this release.

.tgz The full EMC release in compressed tar "tape archive" format.

Unpack and install in the /usr/local/nist directory via:

`cp emc-03-Mar-1999.tgz /usr/local/nist`

`cd /usr/local/nist`
`tar xzvf emc-03-Mar-1999.tgz`

.aa* The full .tgz release is several megabytes, currently about 4Mb. This is too big to fit on a floppy. If your Linux machine is not on the network, you can copy each of these files onto a floppy (they just fit), copy them onto your Linux box, and concatenate them together to form the full release, like this:

`cat emc-03-Mar-1999.aa* > emc-03-Mar-1999.tgz`

The .aaa file is the first part, the .aab is next, etc. The * wildcard will match alphabetically so this short form will expand the file names in the right order.

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