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From: bettingr@sunybcs.uucp (Keith E. Bettinger)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: cpio and installable files...
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Date: 16 Jun 88 15:14:52 GMT
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Reply-To: sunybcs!bedlam!bill (William J. Twomey)
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I'm so happy! I installed mailx and less from THE STORE!,
and they're nice. Mail was such a waste of life. Get them if you can.

There's one thing that I need to figure out. I formatted a floppy,
and copied the installable files from /usr/spool/uucppublic/STORE
onto /mnt before I installed them.  When you are installing files
>from THE STORE!, you have the option of creating an installable
backup. This wastes one floppy per file. How can I merge the
installable files that I have on separate disks, onto more than
one per disk?

How would you use cpio to get installable files from the floppy into
a directory on the hard disk? 

If you hadn't guessed, cpio makes no sense to me.

If anybody would like a copy of the current catalog, mailx or less,
mail me and we'll work something out.

Please send me a copy of your reply, I can no longer read news.
Also DON'T reply to the poster (He don't even have a unix-pc).
If mail to bedlam!bill bounces, mail to sunybcs!twomey, and it'll forward.
                                                ^^^^^^

Bill

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