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From: wjin@moocow.cs.uh.edu (Woody Jin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD 0.9 -> current help sought
Date: 2 Jun 1994 19:35:34 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
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Message-ID: <2slca6$jrn@masala.cc.uh.edu>
References: <2s01vs$o1b@masala.cc.uh.edu> <2sejqb$844@atli.mlb.dmt.csiro.au>
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In article <2sejqb$844@atli.mlb.dmt.csiro.au>,
Geoff Lamb <gsl@mlb.dmt.csiro.au> wrote:
>> 3) Installng the Current NetBSD binaries:
>>    # get the binaries from  arch/i386  directory
>>    umask 022
>>    gzip -dc bin.tar.gz | (cd /; tar xvf - )
>>    .... etc.
>
>What is wrong with using "tar zxvf bin.tar.gz" 
>
>The "z" option on gnu's tar does an automatic "ungzip"

There is nothing wrong with the z option.
However, you have to consider about your working directory and
installation directory.


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