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From: marcus@ccelab.iastate.edu (Marcus I. Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: kernel sources
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 15:33:20 LOCAL
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In article <3rkkli$rtk@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) writes:
>From: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul)
>Subject: Re: kernel sources
>Date: 13 Jun 1995 18:16:18 GMT

[snip]
>People, people, people! There's nothing magic about the distribution
>archives! They're just gzipped tar files split up into chunks. All you
>need to do to extract them is this:

>% cat ssys.* | gzip -d | tar -xvf -

Actually, whether intentional or not, as of 5pm last night (CST) the sources 
were not gzipped.  It complained when I included the gzip -d that I always had 
before.  I tried tar by itself and it worked.  *shrug*