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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!news!netlabs!lwall
  2. From: lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
  4. Subject: Re: 386bsd/srcdist corrupt?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug13.181607.15254@netlabs.com>
  6. Date: 13 Aug 92 18:16:07 GMT
  7. References: <1992Aug12.023903.1433@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <veit.713610524@du9ds3> <1992Aug12.194241.11748@leland.Stanford.EDU>
  8. Sender: news@netlabs.com
  9. Organization: NetLabs, Inc.
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  11. Nntp-Posting-Host: scalpel.netlabs.com
  12.  
  13. In article <1992Aug12.194241.11748@leland.Stanford.EDU> yergeau@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dan Yergeau) writes:
  14. : Real programmers can recognize the differences between cpio
  15. : archive headers and tar headers.  Real programmers can figure
  16. : out either header structure and write a perl script to do
  17. : the extraction without using tar or cpio. :^)
  18.  
  19. Especially if they reverse engineer from the -tar option of find2perl.  :-)
  20.  
  21. Larry Wall
  22. lwall@netlabs.com
  23.