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Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 11:13:20 +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 17:44, Peter A. Castro wrote:
> On Wed, 18 May 2005, Clemson, Chris wrote:
> >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
> 
> 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.

And just for the records, Solaris usually creates cpio archives which are
compatible with Cygwin.  The output of file shows:

Solaris$ find . | cpio -o > x.cpio
Cygwin$ file x.cpio
x.cpio: byte-swapped cpio archive

Solaris$ find . | cpio -oc > x.cpio
Cygwin$ file x.cpio
x.cpio: ASCII cpio archive (SVR4 with no CRC)

I just tried it, out of curiosity.  Both variations are readable by
GNU cpio.


Corinna

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