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From: jason@hpcndjdz.CND.HP.COM (Jason Zions)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP-UX features
Message-ID: <1730097@hpcndjdz.CND.HP.COM>
Date: 2 Jun 91 22:49:35 GMT
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Organization: HP Colorado Networks Division
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>Have you actually looked at what update format is?  At least since 7.0 (and
>from memory earlier on the 800's) it is just a tar file with a standard
>file structure.
>
>I often just go in and tar chunks off without having to get near update.

Very risky; there's more in the tar files than just bits. You need to
execute the various customize scripts as well, in the correct order. In any
event, I suspect HP would be reluctant to support a system which was not
installed or updated according to the provided mechanism; we'd have no way
of knowing how things actually got installed and customized.

As for reading and changing the ARP cache, the arp command is included in
8.0.
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