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Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 17:44:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Peter A. Castro" <doctor AT fruitbat DOT org>
To: "Clemson, Chris" <Chris DOT Clemson AT softwareag DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: CPIO with solaris 9 flash archives
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On Wed, 18 May 2005, Clemson, Chris 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?
> thanks,

How did you get the file to your PC?  Did you FTP it?  Did you remember
to use binary mode? As an experiment, I FTP'd a Solaris 8 CPIO file in
ASC mode and ran cpio against it.  The results are similar to what you
show above.

> chris

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Peter A. Castro <doctor AT fruitbat DOT org> or <Peter DOT Castro AT oracle DOT com>
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