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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1849 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 15:01:00 EST Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!gemini.oscs.montana.edu!opjnw From: opjnw@gemini.oscs.montana.edu (Nathan Williams) Subject: Re: an overwritten file Message-ID: <1993Feb22.010807.23031@coe.montana.edu> Keywords: n Sender: usenet@coe.montana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Montana State University References: <1m92d4INNstu@shelley.u.washington.edu> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 01:08:07 GMT Lines: 23 In article <1m92d4INNstu@shelley.u.washington.edu> ehammers@stein.u.washington.edu (Erick Hammersmark) writes: > >Hello. > >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? > This Hypothetical fellow could ftp to any 386bsd archive site that has the filesystem directory, which contains all of the distributions un-cpioed and grab the file that this fellow hypothetically overwrote. Another hypothetically stupid person I know has had to do that a couple times, :-) Nate -- osynw@terra.oscs.montana.edu | Still trying to find a good reason for nate@cs.montana.edu | these 'computer' things. Personally, work #: (406) 994-4836 | I don't think they'll catch on - home #: (406) 586-0579 | Don Hammerstrom