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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1840 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 15:00:32 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!think.com!enterpoop.mit.edu!ai-lab!hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: an overwritten file Date: 21 Feb 1993 23:55:56 GMT Organization: /etc/organization Lines: 21 Message-ID: <1m94qcINN1eb@life.ai.mit.edu> References: <1m92d4INNstu@shelley.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.ai.mit.edu In article <1m92d4INNstu@shelley.u.washington.edu> ehammers@stein.u.washington.edu (Erick Hammersmark) writes: > > Hypothetically speaking, if some really stupid person (and I mean > *really* stupid) accidentally overwrite a file (say, for example, > /usr/bin/man), and say this hypothetical person didn't have the disk > space for the source distribution, what could this fellow do, short > of reinstalling? If you put the bindist files (bin01.*) in /tmp, the following should work: cat /tmp/bin01.* | uncompress | cpio -iadm usr/bin/man (BTW, the fact that you made a mistake does not make you stupid.) -- \ / Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu /\ \ PGP public key available on request. MIME, AMS, NextMail accepted. Scheme White heterosexual atheist male (WHAM) pride!