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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!du9ds3!veit From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) Subject: Re: Extracting 386bsd bin01 on another machine References: <babraham.714900677@unpcs1> Date: 27 Aug 92 17:49:40 GMT Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung Sender: @unidui.uni-duisburg.de Message-ID: <veit.714937780@du9ds3> Lines: 41 In <babraham.714900677@unpcs1> babraham@unpcs1.cs.unp.ac.za (Bobby Abraham) writes: >Can someone tell me how to extract the bin01 files on another unix >machine. >I don't have enough space for the unextracted files in addition >to the extracted files. I would like to ftp only the extracted files. >thank you >-- >Bobby Abraham >Computer Science >University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg >email: babraham@unpcs1.cs.unp.ac.za If you do not have some "braindead-cpio" system which swaps bytes (Sun3 and other 68xxx related systems have this "feature") you might try the following: # have the bin01.* files HERE mkdir distdir cd distdir cat ../bin01.* | uncompress | cpio -idvalmu into a directory under 'distdir'. But be warned: there may be complaints about some devices in distdir/dev/* which cannot be created if you are not root (depends on whether you may execute mknod). You may have to rebuild the devices on the 386bsd system manually. This procedure has been tested on a Sun4 Sparc. Holger -- | | / Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de |__| / University of Duisburg | BITNET: veit%du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de@UNIDO | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | "No, my programs are not BUGGY, these are | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | just unexpected FEATURES"