On May 18 16:23, Clemson, Chris 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?
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. Out of curiosity, what does `file v240-disbox-v1-08-archive' print? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/
