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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!cujo!marsh!colin
From: colin@marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au (Colin Manning)
Subject: Re: How to extract X386
Message-ID: <colin.715836760@marsh>
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Organization: Curtin University of Technology
References: <eg1kqB2w165w@student.business.uwo.ca>
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 03:32:40 GMT
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mark@student.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell CS Staff) writes:

>I am new to bsd.  I have been able to download the file, and create a
>working bsd machine on the first try.  The networking works fine also.
>The X386 files are named differently than bin01, etc01, ....

>How does one extract these files?

cat path/X386* | uncompress | tar -xf -


>mark@student.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell CS Staff)
>Western Business School  --  London, Ontario
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Colin [colin@cs.curtin.edu.au]

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