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Subject: RE: CPIO with solaris 9 flash archives
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 16:41:09 +0100
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From: "Clemson, Chris" <Chris DOT Clemson AT softwareag DOT co DOT uk>
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> >
> > 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.

hmm, no I got it straight off the dvd it was burnt to.
maybe it just doesn't like flar files.

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