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To: "Fiore, William" <Fiowi01@mail.cai.com>
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Subject: Re: cdrom distribution files 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Nov 1997 09:47:56 PST."
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Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 11:43:14 PST
From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
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In message <314E26C1801AD1119C3000805FD40926118DA8@usilms05.cai.com>,   you wri
te:
>Is their a way to look inside a cdrom distribution file without using\
>/stand/sysinstall to to unpack it?
>
>the old 386BSD distribution files could be examined via
>zcat and cpio.
>
>Is their something similar that can be done with the 2.2.1 distrubtion
>files?

Can't you just
	cat <series>.[??] | tar -C <whereever> -xvzf -


Thats what I did...I had a little script to do it...

marty