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Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 11:23:27 +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 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

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