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Subject: Re: FBSD 2.1 
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Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 03:20:34 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Hmm, i've also heard this from somebody else.  Maybe it's a problem
> with cpio refusing to copy an older/newer/whatever file, Jordan?  The
> /etc/services in question is that one from sysinstall, it's supposed
> to be overwritten with the right one during installation of the

Yep, that's correct.  I was quite surprised to hear about the
/etc/services truncation, in fact, and think it's some cpio bogosity
that needs investigating.

The world is still waiting for a replacement for tar/cpio/... that
allows compression, random access to files and isn't named `zip'.. :-)

					Jordan