At 11:23 AM 5/18/2005, you 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? You're not reading the warnings? You may need to read the 'cpio' man page as well. You're looking for the '-b' switch I believe. BTW, this is not a Cygwin-specific issue. It's an endian thing. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
