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RE: CPIO with solaris 9 flash archives
- From: "Clemson, Chris" <Chris dot Clemson at softwareag dot co dot uk>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 09:49:26 +0100
- Subject: RE: CPIO with solaris 9 flash archives
> > 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?
>
> Hard to say. Either it's not really a compatible cpio format (some
> Solaris native format perhaps) or cpio doesn't recognize the format
> automatically and you should try the -H command line switch.
thanks, I'll check that out. you're supposed to be able to use cpio to extract it, unfortunately I guess you're supposed to do it on solaris and it would be automatic.
> 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?
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