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Subject:	RE: CPIO with solaris 9 flash archives
Date:	Thu, 19 May 2005 09:49:26 +0100
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From:	"Clemson, Chris" <Chris DOT Clemson AT softwareag DOT co DOT uk>
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> > 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?
> 
> Hard to say.  Either it's not really a compatible cpio format (some
> Solaris native format perhaps) or cpio doesn't recognize the format
> automatically and you should try the -H command line switch.

thanks, I'll check that out. you're supposed to be able to use cpio to extract it, unfortunately I guess you're supposed to do it on solaris and it would be automatic.

> Out of curiosity, what does `file v240-disbox-v1-08-archive' print?

hmm, I don't seem to have the file command. what package is it in?

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