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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: where is 'extract'
Date: 10 Jul 1995 10:18:29 +0200
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Chris Origer <ctoriger@starbase.neosoft.com> wrote:
>Hi, for the life of me I can't find extract. I found this info on the
>netbsd 'extract' but none for freebsd. Or are these the same? Better yet,
>is this what I need (to install some more stuff from the distribution)?
sysinstall is supposed to do that job.
Anyway, you can also do it `by hand':
cd <wherever your dist files live>
cat foodist.* | (cd /; tar xvzf -)
...will install foodist from the split files. If you've got a .tgz
file, you can also de-tar it directly.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)