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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!paperboy.micro.umn.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wupost!think.com!ames!agate!soda.berkeley.edu!wjolitz From: wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Sorry, everyone, but I'm cpio clueless... Message-ID: <1470niINNkd1@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 17 Jul 92 17:41:06 GMT Article-I.D.: agate.1470niINNkd1 References: <1992Jul17.160256.4518@news.iastate.edu> Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association Lines: 18 NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu The files are a multivolume CPIO dump, e.g. they are extracted by "cat bin01.* | cpio -iadm". The idea is that you get all of these files onto your hard disk in the /tmp directory. How you do this is by various means, including putting the files onto DOS floppies (to be read by mread), over the net directly via ftp, via a cpio cartridge tape (of these files), via ZMODEM download (for those of infinite patience), via CDROM (when it becomes available -- mechanism is present and works, but no CDROM has yet been made), and by other clever means using the tools provided by the base system that's installed by "Tiny 386BSD". The idea here was that you can obtain the files by a combination of ways, so if you have a bad floppy, or a partially read tape, you can obtain the remaining files by other means, it's all the same to the system. Bill.