Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 11:23:27 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: CPIO with solaris 9 flash archives Message-ID: <20050519092327.GC2794@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <8DF313F23701E14797635CF8AC0318A61CD8A4@UKMSG04.gbr.ad.sag> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8DF313F23701E14797635CF8AC0318A61CD8A4@UKMSG04.gbr.ad.sag> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On May 19 10:12, Clemson, Chris wrote: > > > > 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 > > doh! > silly me - I was expecting it to be in a standard library. > it would help if was looking at the full list of packages too! > > E:\>file v240-disbox-v1-08-archive > v240-disbox-v1-08-archive: data > > which basically means it doesn't recognise it, doesn't it? Right. I just had a quick test and `find' usually recognizes the various cpio formats. There's a good chance that the format is some special Solaris format which GNU cpio 2.5 (and, FWIW, file) doesn't know about. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/