Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 20:31:30 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pax weirdness (bug?) Message-ID: <199804090131.UAA11524@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> of "Wed, 08 Apr 1998 21:20:51 %2B1000." <199804081119.EAA14080@hub.freebsd.org>
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> 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
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