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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!natinst.com!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!not-for-mail From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Help! Lost "extract" Date: 22 Mar 1993 15:16:41 -0600 Organization: Armstrong Lab MIS, Brooks AFB TX Lines: 42 Message-ID: <1olabpINN53k@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> References: <1993Mar14.022824.7584@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <21250028@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com> <1993Mar22.143444.27590@prism.poly.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hrd769.brooks.af.mil In article <1993Mar22.143444.27590@prism.poly.edu> ssnyder@prism.poly.edu (Sharon Snyder) writes: :In article <21250028@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com> reink@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Reinier Kleipool) writes: :>Why ftp'ing to a server while you can read it from your distribution :>floppy! The file is deleted, because after a reboot all files in /tmp :>are deleted. :> :This requires re-installation - right? Maybe he/she has made a number of :changes like adding users, put in some patches, etc. Is there any other way :of getting the extract program? I had to reinstall several times before I figured out what was going on (not that I'm really any closer to understanding this than I was when I started :-). I saved off the extract program during one of my more lucid moments and it is now available for anonymous FTP from hrd769.brooks.af.mil. It is a cpio file to preserve the file mode, etc. Use cpio to 'extract' it. Alternately, you can just grab the extract executable and 'chmod 755 extract' yourself. : I couldn't find it on agate.berkeley.edu but :that doesn't mean I looked in all the right places. BTW if someone asks a :question like that, it usually means that they aren't too familiar with the :system and would like some help, not a quick/flip answer (at least that is how :I read it). As a newbie myself, I try to read a lot of the posts to learn :quickly, but when people are not patient and/or don't explain things I get :upset. : True enough. On the other hand, not everybody has a good day every day. Also, there are times when the person juswt doesn't know what question to ask. For example, I could tell you that extract is nothing more than a 5 line shell script and a better question rcwould have been 'How do I unpack the etc distribution without using extract'. Another might have been "I read the part of the FAQ that told how to do this but still don't understand, could someone help me." From there the examples just get worse, so we'll stop there :-) -- ------ TSgt Dave Burgess NCOIC AL/Management Information Systems Office Brooks AFB, TX