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Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 14:37:40 -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 Fri, 20 May 2005, Clemson, Chris wrote:

>> And just for the records, Solaris usually creates cpio
>> archives which are
>> compatible with Cygwin.  The output of file shows:
>
>> I just tried it, out of curiosity.  Both variations are readable by
>> GNU cpio.
>
> hmm, it must just not like flar archives.
> thanks for checking it out.

Can you give the command that was used to create the flar ?  I'll try and
reproduce it.

> chris

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