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From: lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 386bsd/srcdist corrupt?
Message-ID: <1992Aug13.181607.15254@netlabs.com>
Date: 13 Aug 92 18:16:07 GMT
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In article <1992Aug12.194241.11748@leland.Stanford.EDU> yergeau@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dan Yergeau) writes:
: Real programmers can recognize the differences between cpio
: archive headers and tar headers.  Real programmers can figure
: out either header structure and write a perl script to do
: the extraction without using tar or cpio. :^)

Especially if they reverse engineer from the -tar option of find2perl.  :-)

Larry Wall
lwall@netlabs.com