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Date:      Tue, 19 Dec 1995 11:42:10 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
Cc:        ahill@interconnect.com.au, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kerndist
Message-ID:  <199512190112.LAA06305@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951217134534.235A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> from "Doug White" at Dec 17, 95 01:47:51 pm

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Doug White stands accused of saying:
> Go on to your favorite ftp site and grab 
> "FreeBSD-2.1.0-RELEASE/src/ssys.*".  Cat them all together using `cat 
> ssys.* > something.tar.gz' and extract using `tar xzf something.tar.gz' 
> as root.  

The 'cat' step above is redundant, and just wastes space.

cat ssys.* |tar xvzf - 

is functionally equivalent.  Alternatively, 

ncftp -c "ftp://freebsd.archive.site/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.0-RELEASE/src/ssys.*" 
 | tar xvzf -

will fetch and extract in one go.

> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  

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