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From: andys@genesis.ATT.COM (a.b.sherman)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: STORE! file format?
Summary: It is a cpio archive with install scripts
Keywords: STORE
Message-ID: <478@genesis.ATT.COM>
Date: 23 Sep 88 12:57:39 GMT
References: <3731@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: andys@shlepper.ATT.COM (a.b.sherman)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Middletown, N.J.
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In article <3731@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> yren@phoenix.Princeton.EDU () writes:
>
>	I got some files from the STORE!, but have problem handling them.
>	Every file has a name like *****+IN.Z, the uncompressing goes ok,
>	but then ...
>
>	What is +IN format? On my Unix PC, it says cpio archive, but I 
>	really don't believe it. It is not tar, ar, ... either.


It really is a cpio archive.  The +IN suffix means that it contains
all of the files expected by the UA to use the Install Software and
Remove Software items in the Administration menus.
-- 
andy sherman / at&t bell laboratories (medical diagnostic systems)
room 2e-108 / 185 monmouth pkwy / west long branch, nj 07764-1394
(201) 870-7018 / andys@shlepper.ATT.COM
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