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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: cpio disk!
Date: 31 Jan 1995 00:34:48 -0000
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steven deutsch (sdeutsch@citrus.SAC.CA.US) wrote:
: Keywords: 
: Hi,
: I have ftp'ed the FreeBSD 2.0 system over a couple of days. I have 1 file
: that always gets corupt cpio.flp.gz. I need this file to install.

: If someone would uuencode it for me and email it I would be very greatfull.

: Thanx,
: Steve

Careful with that file... you should only gunzip it once.  When I first
pulled it down (from ftp.demon.co.uk) it was called cpio.flp.gz.gz and
I unziped it twice (creating the tar archive)... This is not what the
install stuff wants.... only unzip it once.

--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>

Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....