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From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net>
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--On Monday, October 25, 2004 11:43 PM -0700 Tim Kientzle 
<kientzle@freebsd.org> wrote:

> In the interim, you might try this *much* faster
> method:
>
> find . -name Makefile.orig | tar -c -f Makefiles.tar -I-

Thanks for the handy tip.

Jason C. Wells