Subject: Re: The 11th NetBSD/SPARC machine [Long]
To: Theo Deraadt <deraadt@fsa.ca>
From: None <lm@CS.Stanford.EDU>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/27/1994 11:02:59
: Thanks. I just fixed the /dev/zero thing.  The next snapshot will be
: capable of handling "MAKEDEV all", which will ease things. I'd love to
: ship a dev.tar.gz but it doesn't look as if SunOS `tar' handles device
: nodes properly.

Ship a dev.cpio.gz - cpio handles devices properly.  If you don't have cpio
in your source, then pick up afio, it is a free cpio that is quite nice.
I prefer it to tar.

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