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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Installing MICROPORT Text Package
Message-ID: <1990Oct22.001513.1042@virtech.uucp>
Date: 22 Oct 90 00:15:13 GMT
References: <1990Oct21.160921.9822@mccc.uucp>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <1990Oct21.160921.9822@mccc.uucp> pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>I'd like to install the Microport Text Processing Package on my SV386
>R3.2.2 system, but both installpkg and cpio (many options tried!) fail. 
>Has anyone any suggestions?

If I remember correctly, they are cpio formatted, but the first track is
skipped.

Try the following:

	dd if=/dev/rfd0 bs=15k skip=1 | cpio -itvB


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