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From: nbc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk (Neil Brendan Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How do I ... ?
Date: 14 Nov 1995 15:19:54 -0000
Organization: University of Strathclyde
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Steve M. Spiller <steve@microdot.com> wrote:
>
>The packages, *.tgz, are easy, but I can't find a util to install the
>.aa, .ab, etc files.  Can anyone help?  Thanks!

You have to concatenate the files together, pipe them through gzip, then
through tar. Something along the lines of;

	cat thefiles.* | tar -ztf -

will show you what files are contained in the archive. From this, you'll
have to make an intelligent guess as to where they should go, then install
them with 

	cat thefiles.* | tar -zxvf -

Of course, this will only drop the files in the (hopefully :) correct place;
there may be many configuration options left still to do. For example, I
believe X may be installed by using the above method with all the required
archives then using the post configuration option of /stand/sysinstall to
do the rest. Be careful though!

Neil
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