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- From: rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
- Subject: Re: 386bsd: {src,etc}dist won't extract
- Message-ID: <p9ulmbo@sgi.sgi.com>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 08:50:52 GMT
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- ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za (Mike Lawrie) writes:
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- | The message "too many open files" occurs when I extract srcdist and
- | bindist, but there is no problem with bindist.
- | Can anyone advise how they managed to do the extractions?
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- Do bindist first, then use the "cat" that you just extracted from bindist
- (/mnt/bin/cat, if you booted off floppy), *not* the one on the "dist" floppy,
- to extract from srcdist. It'll work.
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- -Rob
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