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Re: cpio problem
- To: Ian at kiwiplan dot co dot nz (Ian Collins)
- Subject: Re: cpio problem
- From: Geoffrey Noer <noer at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 13:26:49 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
Ian Collins wrote:
>
> I have just compiled and made cpio on gnu win32 b19.
> I tested it with a 400Mb binary cpio file.
> If I use,
>
> cpio -icv < file.cpio
>
> then it gets a premature end of file error.
>
> However, if I use,
>
> cpio -icv -I file.cpio
>
> then it works OK.
>
> What is stdin doing?
Almost certainly, the redirect is happening in text mode while the
-I inputs the file in binary mode.
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Geoffrey Noer
noer@cygnus.com
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