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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!uunet!news.moneng.mei.com!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!dial24.ppp.iastate.edu!marcus From: marcus@ccelab.iastate.edu (Marcus I. Ryan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: kernel sources Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 15:33:20 LOCAL Organization: Iowa State University Lines: 17 Message-ID: <marcus.109.004C8EFF@ccelab.iastate.edu> References: <3rk1hm$t3l@tulpi.interconnect.com.au> <3rkkli$rtk@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dial24.ppp.iastate.edu X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B final beta #4] In article <3rkkli$rtk@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) writes: >From: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) >Subject: Re: kernel sources >Date: 13 Jun 1995 18:16:18 GMT [snip] >People, people, people! There's nothing magic about the distribution >archives! They're just gzipped tar files split up into chunks. All you >need to do to extract them is this: >% cat ssys.* | gzip -d | tar -xvf - Actually, whether intentional or not, as of 5pm last night (CST) the sources were not gzipped. It complained when I included the gzip -d that I always had before. I tried tar by itself and it worked. *shrug*