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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!sdd.hp.com!usc!news!netlabs!lwall From: lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 386bsd/srcdist corrupt? Message-ID: <1992Aug13.181607.15254@netlabs.com> Date: 13 Aug 92 18:16:07 GMT References: <1992Aug12.023903.1433@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <veit.713610524@du9ds3> <1992Aug12.194241.11748@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@netlabs.com Organization: NetLabs, Inc. Lines: 10 Nntp-Posting-Host: scalpel.netlabs.com In article <1992Aug12.194241.11748@leland.Stanford.EDU> yergeau@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dan Yergeau) writes: : Real programmers can recognize the differences between cpio : archive headers and tar headers. Real programmers can figure : out either header structure and write a perl script to do : the extraction without using tar or cpio. :^) Especially if they reverse engineer from the -tar option of find2perl. :-) Larry Wall lwall@netlabs.com