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From: blc@sol.med.ge.com (Brett Chapman  x5156)
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Subject: Re: CD ROM /extract_patch
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In article <1287@brchh104.bnr.ca> earth!heath@sunkist.west.sun.com (Frank Heath) writes:

>We have the CDROM, and for installs its great, no questions. BUT I
>just tried to extract  the Patch for C++ 2.0 needed for 4.1 and
>/usr/etc/extract_patch won't recognize sr0(the cdrom device).

RTFM - Section A.3 (page 101) of the SunOS 4.1 RTF tell you exactly what
to do to get patches off the CD-ROM.  Basically, you just mount the CD-ROM
and cd to the patch directory.  This is a lot faster and simpler than the
tape method!