On May 19 09:49, Clemson, Chris wrote: > > > 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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