Installing MICROPORT Text Package

Conor P. Cahill cpcahil at virtech.uucp
Mon Oct 22 10:15:13 AEST 1990


In article <1990Oct21.160921.9822 at mccc.uucp> pjh at mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>I'd like to install the Microport Text Processing Package on my SV386
>R3.2.2 system, but both installpkg and cpio (many options tried!) fail. 
>Has anyone any suggestions?

If I remember correctly, they are cpio formatted, but the first track is
skipped.

Try the following:

	dd if=/dev/rfd0 bs=15k skip=1 | cpio -itvB


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