Using source code from archives Using source code from archives Finding and copying the source code Much of the locally produced source code is kept online. The main UK archive for source is Sunsite, northern europe . Source Forge also has lots of source code and discussion about code development.
Some sites specialise in certain software.
Get LaTeX files from CTAN . Various Macintosh-related archives are available. There are also some newsgroups on which source appears. Preparing the archive file for compilation under Unix Many of the big files on archives are compressed. Files with .z or .gz need to be uncompressed using gunzip .