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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: guru needed: manual installation
Date: 9 Aug 1995 10:23:30 +0200
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Steven Kehlet <kehlet@netcom.com> wrote:

>Can someone tell me how I can extract all the bin.?? files by hand?
>I think its a cpio command, with gunzip, or something.

cd /
cat <distdir>/bin.* | gzip -d -c | cpio -ivdmu
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cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

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