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From: Søren Schmidt <sos@sos.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: Where is source code for fstat command?
In-Reply-To: <5010300006145941000002L012*@MHS> from Stephen Wehr at "Jul 23, 97 09:08:02 am"
To: swehr@us.ibm.com (Stephen Wehr)
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 15:40:36 +0200 (MEST)
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In reply to Stephen Wehr who wrote:
> I wanted to get the source code for just the "fstat" command.
> I was looking in the src directory of the 2.2.2 release, but it's
> a little hard to divine which file the source for fstat may be in.
> 
> - Can you point me to the right one?

sos> whereis fstat
fstat: /usr/bin/fstat /usr/share/man/man1/fstat.1.gz /usr/src/usr.bin/fstat
sos> 

> - Will it work to just download this one file without the rest
>   of the package?

Depends, fstat.c and the Makefile should do it..

> - How do I unpack the *.a? file?

Erhm you mean the distribution files ??

Try the install.sh script in the directory from where you get
the source distribution...

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