On Sun, 5 May 1996, Chris Ghormley wrote:

> oh, by the way, if you're installing X I assume that you already have
> netbsd up and running.  if so, I believe you'll get faster decompression
> by just copying the file in,
> 
> > cpin X.11Mar95.tgz /usr/X.11Mar95.tgz
> 	^^^^^^^^^^^   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 	 file in 	new unix file
> 	installer
> 	directory
> 
> then you can boot, gunzip and untar the archive.
> 
> hope this helps.  anyone have more specific advice?

Yep!  Don't bother gunzip'ing and then untar'ing the archive.  Just use 
the following command:

     tar -xzf  /usr/X.11Mar95.tgz

(The "z" in -xzf automagically invokes gunzip!)