reading sysV dist tape under 4.2

lrr at siemens.UUCP lrr at siemens.UUCP
Fri Feb 15 02:45:00 AEST 1985


The System V release 2 programs are distributed in
cpio format, which makes tar somewhat useless.  If you con't
have a cpio hanging around, you may have to bring up system V 
read in the source, and then bring up 4.2 again.  Once you've
done that, and recompiled cpio under 4.2, it does work as expected.


				Larry Rogers
				Siemens Research and Technology Laboratories
				Princeton, NJ 08540



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