From:	noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject:	Re: cpio problem
14 Apr 1998 21:34:23 -0700 :
Message-ID:	<199804142026.NAA10198.cygnus.gnu-win32@skaro.cygnus.com>
References:	<C1A9DAABC292D111A4D90000F879A2BA0EF7 AT NTMAIL>
To:	Ian AT kiwiplan DOT co DOT nz (Ian Collins)
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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