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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
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Subject: Re: reading sysV dist tape under 4.2
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Since this question keeps coming up, I will respond to the net.
AT&T UNIX System V distributions are a combination of binary images
and CPIO archives, several files per magtape.  The CPIO archives
recently have been "portable ASCII header" format, so one uses
"cpio -idcB