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From: conklin@kaleida.com (J.T. Conklin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: any chance of...
Date: 31 Mar 93 14:10:04
Organization: Kaleida Labs, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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In-reply-to: mark@roissy.umd.edu's message of 30 Mar 1993 23:35:01 GMT
>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Sienkiewicz <mark@roissy.umd.edu> writes:
Mark> however, gnutar is _not_ a good candidate for an install disk because it
Mark> is relatively big.
Mark> A good candidate would be called "untar" and it would _only_ extract an
Mark> entire archive. I wrote one of these in 30 minutes once. I didn't keep
Mark> it because it was so trivial and I didn't need it.
There has been some talk of merging the install and fixit disks into
one that can do both. In this case, we'll need a full featured
archive program.
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