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Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 10:52:46 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: CPIO with solaris 9 flash archives
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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


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Corinna

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