From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 8 18:44:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA25944 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 18:44:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA25870 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 18:44:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt1-150.HiWAAY.net [208.147.147.150]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id UAA24336 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 20:44:18 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id UAA11524 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 20:31:30 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199804090131.UAA11524@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Pax weirdness (bug?) In-reply-to: Message from Darren Reed of "Wed, 08 Apr 1998 21:20:51 +1000." <199804081119.EAA14080@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 20:31:30 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Try this: > > % cat /cdrom/info/info.* | zcat | pax -r -w -v tmpdir > > Be quick with ^C. > > Any ideas? Known bogon? Fixes? (Nothing intuitive, anyway.) What's so weird about it? It appears you have invoked "copy" mode using "-r -w" I think "cat /cdrom/info/info.[a-z][a-z] | zcat | (cd tmpdir; pax -r -v)" is what it takes to extract the files. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message