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From: storm@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (Marc Wandschneider)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Where is extract in NetBSD-0.9
Date: 30 Aug 1993 11:17:22 -0400
Organization: School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal
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Message-ID: <25t5m2$4tb@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca>
References: <cproto.746689805@marsh> <22694@durer.cme.nist.gov>
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In article <22694@durer.cme.nist.gov> schnee@sst170.ncsl.nist.gov (Rick Schneeman) writes:
>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
Nit alert:
Techincally, you should do the following:
cat /tmpdir/dist.??? | gunzip | (cd /; tar x[v]f -)
The distributions only use relative pathnames, not absolute...
Toodlepip!
Marc 'em.
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Marc Wandschneider Montreal, Canada
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