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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Opus diskettes
To: dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis)
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 10:18:37 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199706181513.IAA02167@seagull.rtd.com> from "Don Yuniskis" at Jun 18, 97 08:13:39 am
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>      I'm trying to chase down some man page problems in one of
> the ports and was going to look through the man pages for another
> OS I have in a box here.  It's a SysV3.2 derivative from Opus
> Systems (runs on a 32032 coprocessor card).  The files appear
> to be gzipped tarballs with some bogus front-end glued onto
> them.  They are all called OPFIL (on 5" floppies).
>      Was this a SysV-ism?  Any clues as to how I can
> descramble them (short of reinstalling the coprocessor card, etc.)?
>     Thx!

dd if=/dev/floppy skip=4k conv=swab of=file_without_VTOC

You may not need the "conv=swab", depending on the box you are
running on.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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