Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/05/19/04:53:13
On May 19 09:49, Clemson, Chris wrote:
> > > 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?
file
;-)
Corinna
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