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From: cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: any chance of...
Date: 28 Mar 93 10:08:19
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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Message-ID: <CGD.93Mar28100819@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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In-reply-to: matthew@nano.engr.mun.ca's message of Sun, 28 Mar 1993 17:24:38 GMT
In article <matthew.733339478@femto.engr.mun.ca> matthew@nano.engr.mun.ca (Matthew Newhook) writes:
>cat src* | compress -d | cpio -pcdumv
^ -- needs to be i
"cat src01.?? | uncompress | cpio -idalmuv"
is my favorite way to do it.
>but this doesn't work... (Of course, this was on an Ultrix 4.2 machine,
>and I also tried this under solaris 2.1 (YUCK!))
i've not tried it with solaris, but under ultrix,
i compiled a copy of the 386bsd cpio
(agate.berkeley.edu:.../filesystem/usr/src/usr.bin/cpio/cpio.c)
and it works great...
chris
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