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From: goran@astro.uu.se (Goran Hammarback)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: extracting src01 on a Sun
Date: 22 Oct 1992 12:20:29 GMT
Organization: Uppsala University
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In article <6006@tuegate.tue.nl>, jim@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Jim Rump) writes:
|> Hi,
|> 
|> To extract src01, just do this:
|> Put al de src-files in one directory then go /.
|> Extract with: cat /tmp/src01* | uncompress | cpio -dalmuv.
|> (This is true only when src01 is in /tmp).
|> 
|> It's really important you do this when standing at the root of your 
|> filesystem.


Personally I would be at, say ~/386bsd to avoid putting the stuff
in the Suns /usr/src directory...  (BTW, I think the cpio
switch should be -idmu on a Sun (at least on 4.2.1)).

-- 

Goran

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Goran Hammarback              |     goran@astro.uu.se
Astronomiska Observatoriet    |
Uppsala Universitet           |
S-751 20 SWEDEN               |
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