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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu!cronkite.ocis.temple.edu!astro.ocis.temple.edu!lafollet From: lafollet@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Paul Lafollette) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: 386BSD - cpio and etc01 Message-ID: <1992Oct11.220636.29711@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> Date: 11 Oct 92 22:06:36 GMT Sender: news@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu (NetWork News (readnews)) Organization: Temple University Lines: 29 X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5 I fear the answer to this is no, but here goes anyhow... I do not have room for both sources and the etc distribution. I need the sources, so etc has to go. I do, however, have all of the etc01 files on a series of DOS diskettes. Is there any way that I can retrieve specific files or directories from them without copying them all to my unix hard disk (no room to hold them all). I am able on our mainframe to cat them all together and uncompress them, but then cpio on that machine says the result is not a cpio file. I suspect that the header is in byte reversed order or something like that. Anyhow, I wonder if there is anyway to simultaneously uncompress and extract from the collection of etc01.xx files. On a more frivolous subject... why does rogue complain about not being able to lock the score file? My guess is that there is a directory somewhere which either does not exist or has the wrong permissions. Thanks for any help... Paul LaFollette CIS Dept. Temple University Philadelphia, PA 19122 lafollet@astro.cis.temple.edu