The install note for sun3 say to do:

 cd .../NetBSD-1.2/install
 set T = /dev/nrst0
 mt -f $T rewind
 foreach f (base etc comp games man misc text)
  gzip -d < $f.gz | dd of=$T bs=8k
 end
 mt -f $T rewind

 Well, I have a directory containing the following :

 base.tar.gz
 etc.tar.gz
 comp.tar.gz
 games.tar.gz
 man.tar.gz
 misc.tar.gz
 text.tar.gz

 Obviously the gzip line above will barf wil "no such ..."

 Should the gzip line really be:

  gzip -d < $f.tar.gz | dd of=$T bs=8k

   or

  gzip -d $f.tar.gz | dd of=$T bs=8k

    or

  gzip -d $f.tar.gz | tar xvf -

 or what?  This is a problem because of the necessity of hauling tape drives
&etc. back and forth to/from work per experiment.
 Does the script want to dd the tar files onto the tape and put an EOF
between them?

 Thank you for your help.
                                                   Matthew Alton -
matthew.alton@anheuser-busch.com