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From: sn@plato.chemietechnik.uni-dortmund.de (sn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: how to use extract during installations
Date: 28 Feb 1993 00:49:51 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Dortmund, CT, Germany
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dsilvia@blunt.net.com () writes:

>In article <C34Cto.J35@panix.com> kims@panix.com (Sang Kim) writes:
>>
>>when I use mread a:*.* /tmp it copies the files to /tmp.
>>but when I try to run extract, it asks for distribution name.  What is
>>it?  I am trying to extract the binary files  eg bin01.00
>>Sang Kim
>>kims@panix.com

>try 'extract bin'

Nope. Rather try "extract bin01" that should work.

-Sven