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  1. Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!batcomputer!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!cujo!marsh!colin
  3. From: colin@marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au (Colin Manning)
  4. Subject: Re: How to extract X386
  5. Message-ID: <colin.715836760@marsh>
  6. Sender: news@cujo.curtin.edu.au (News Manager)
  7. Organization: Curtin University of Technology
  8. References: <eg1kqB2w165w@student.business.uwo.ca>
  9. Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 03:32:40 GMT
  10. Lines: 18
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  12. mark@student.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell CS Staff) writes:
  13.  
  14. >I am new to bsd.  I have been able to download the file, and create a
  15. >working bsd machine on the first try.  The networking works fine also.
  16. >The X386 files are named differently than bin01, etc01, ....
  17.  
  18. >How does one extract these files?
  19.  
  20. cat path/X386* | uncompress | tar -xf -
  21.  
  22.  
  23. >mark@student.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell CS Staff)
  24. >Western Business School  --  London, Ontario
  25. --
  26. Colin [colin@cs.curtin.edu.au]
  27.  
  28. "Knowledge is not knowing all the answers, but knowing where to find them."
  29.                                                                   -anon.
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