Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com> List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/> List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs> Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Reply-To: Cygwin List <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> Message-Id: <6.2.1.2.0.20050518125016.09f10900@pop.prospeed.net> Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 12:53:51 -0400 To: "Clemson, Chris" <Chris DOT Clemson AT softwareag DOT co DOT uk>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> From: Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com> Subject: Re: CPIO with solaris 9 flash archives In-Reply-To: <8DF313F23701E14797635CF8AC0318A61CD8A0@UKMSG04.gbr.ad.sag> References: <8DF313F23701E14797635CF8AC0318A61CD8A0 AT UKMSG04 DOT gbr DOT ad DOT sag> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 11:23 AM 5/18/2005, you wrote: >Hi everyone! > >I'm trying to get cygwin cpio to view/extract a flash archive made on solaris 9. > >According to the docs, a flash archive is just a cpio archive. >Reading the during the solaris install works fine, but I am having trouble getting cygwin cpio to view it: > >E:\>cpio -ivF v240-disbox-v1-08-archive /etc/release >cpio: warning: skipped 90486 bytes of junk >cpio: warning: archive header has reverse byte-order ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >cpio: warning: skipped 188023 bytes of junk >cpio: warning: skipped 1360 bytes of junk >cpio: warning: skipped 146962 bytes of junk >cpio: premature end of file > >E:\> > >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? You're not reading the warnings? You may need to read the 'cpio' man page as well. You're looking for the '-b' switch I believe. BTW, this is not a Cygwin-specific issue. It's an endian thing. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/