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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Upgrade from 401295 --> 2.0.5
Date: 12 Jun 1995 14:02:00 +0200
Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden.
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J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
(yeah, me :)
>cat src-* | (cd /usr; tar -xvzf -)
...just in case the files are cpio format (i'm not sure), the trick is:
cat src-* | gzip -d -c | cpio -it
to view the archive, and
cat src-* | gzip -d -c | (cd /usr; cpio -ivdmu)
to extract it.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)