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From: graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to open files like *.AA *.AB?
Date: 1 Aug 1995 18:36:38 GMT
Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin
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Matti Maula (Matti.Maula@lmf.ericsson.se) wrote:
: I installed the FreeBSD for first time yesterday and it worked fine.
: Now I got the 2.0.5 up and running and I would like to add some
: files/programs from directory /dists. 
: BUT how to put together and open files in those directories?
: They end *.AA, *.AB...
: What does this 00_trans.tbl mean?
00_trans.tbl ist the name-translation table for os's which only have a 8/3
namespace for filenames :-)

the *.aa and so on are simply splitted tar files

  cat name.* | tar tvzf - 

for instance shows you the contents and with

  cat name.* | tar xvzf - 

you may extract them

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