From: Jim Winstead Jr. (jwinstea@jarthur.claremont.edu)
Date: 07/01/92


From: jwinstea@jarthur.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.)
Subject: Re: What is on the rootimage disk (FAQ?)
Date: 2 Jul 1992 01:28:23 GMT

In article <sand.710030644@milton> sand@milton.u.washington.edu (Derek Upham) writes:
>jwinstea@jarthur.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) writes:
>
>>Both kermit and mtools are not on the 0.95a root disk, and it is
>>doubtful they will be on 0.96 root disk - however, (before everyone
>>starts to howl) they will both be on the 0.96 supplemental disk[. . .]
>
>So given the 0.95a root disk (or the 0.96 root without the
>supplemental), what's the canonical procedure for getting the Kermit
>binary installed on a Linux filesystem?

- rawrite the (compressed) tar archive to floppy
- under Linux, do a 'tar zxvf /dev/fd0', using the z flag if compressed
  and using the appropriate drive.

Pretty painless, huh?

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