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From: yergeau@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dan Yergeau)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: format of 386bsd 0.1 src images
Message-ID: <1993Jun15.165058.27261@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 15 Jun 93 16:50:58 GMT
References: <1993Jun11.163802.142330@clam.com> <1993Jun14.195845.445@nhqvax.hq.nasa.gov>
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In article <1993Jun14.195845.445@nhqvax.hq.nasa.gov>, mnewell@lupine.nsi.nasa.gov. (Mike Newell) writes:
|> In article 142330@clam.com, dyer@clam.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
|> >I'm attempting to browse through the 386bsd 0.1 src files,
|> >named src01.01 - src01.61, and I'm a little confused as to their
|> >format. They seem to be compressed files ("zcat *" seems to give
|> >reasonable output), but I'm not sure what the archive format is.
|> >
|>
|> They are in cpio(1) format. I've managed to read them on a SunOS 4.1.3
|> system with no problem...
Some System V cpio's may have problems (header not recognized or
something like that). I've had problems on SGI/Irix 4.0.1 and
SysV/386 (R3.2 based, not R4).
GNU cpio seems to work fine if you have problems and the source is
available at a ftp site near you.
|> Mike Newell
|> NASA Advanced Network Applications Group
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