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RE: CPIO with solaris 9 flash archives
- From: "Clemson, Chris" <Chris dot Clemson at softwareag dot co dot uk>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 16:41:09 +0100
- Subject: RE: CPIO with solaris 9 flash archives
> >
> > both the file and the drive I am reading it with work fine.
> > I can't say I've used cpio much, but the man pages say that
> it should recognise the format automatically.
> > any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
> > thanks,
>
> How did you get the file to your PC? Did you FTP it? Did
> you remember
> to use binary mode? As an experiment, I FTP'd a Solaris 8 CPIO file in
> ASC mode and ran cpio against it. The results are similar to what you
> show above.
hmm, no I got it straight off the dvd it was burnt to.
maybe it just doesn't like flar files.
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