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From: witr@rwwa.COM (Robert Withrow)
Subject: Re: Lots of Q's about 386bsd 0.1
Message-ID: <1992Aug6.144824.15587@rwwa.COM>
Keywords: mtools df cpio screen3.2
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Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1992 14:48:24 GMT
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Simpler answers to faqish questions...

| In article 2185 of comp.unix.bsd
Meaningless attribution:  ^^^^

| |> 5)	How can I disklabel a 3.5in floppy?

 (lots of fussy work deleted...)

newfs /dev/rfdxa floppy (where x is 0 or 1)

| |> 6)	How big is src01 when uncompressed??

cat src01.* | compress -d | wc

| |> 7)	Can I extract a single directory from cpio format??

cat src01.* | compress -d | cpio -iv pattern

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