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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!dove!cme!sst170.ncsl.nist.gov!schnee From: schnee@sst170.ncsl.nist.gov (Rick Schneeman) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Where is extract in NetBSD-0.9 Message-ID: <22694@durer.cme.nist.gov> Date: 30 Aug 93 13:29:34 GMT References: <cproto.746689805@marsh> Sender: news@cme.nist.gov Lines: 26 Nntp-Posting-Host: sst170.ncsl.nist.gov X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Computer Protocol (cproto@cs.curtin.edu.au) wrote: : I installed NetBSD-0.9 without any problems although after rebooting I : had a few unreferenced files. But what makes me really curious is that : there was no extract file (script or executable). The only explanation I : can think of is that it (and set_tmp_dir and load_scsi_tape) have been : hacked into the shell. Can somebody confirm this ??? : Regards - Tibor Sashegyi (cproto@cs.curtin.edu.au) Yes, it is part of the install shell profile when you are installing the system and goes away after you reboot. If you need its functionality (which you really don't, you can simply mount or otherwise get the distribution you need into a tmp directory then issue a: cat /tmpdir/dist.??? | gunzip | tar xvf - and this will work just the same.) you can mount the install floppy and simply copy the install shell's profile onto the current filesystem and source the profile to enable the shell function extract.... -- ============================================================================= Richard D. Schneeman rschneeman@nist.gov National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Computer Systems Lab, Technology Building, MS-B266 Gaithersburg, MD 20899 USA =============================================================================