On May 19 17:44, Peter A. Castro wrote: > On Wed, 18 May 2005, Clemson, Chris wrote: > >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 > > How did you get the file to your PC? Did you FTP it? Did you remember > to use binary mode? As an experiment, I FTP'd a Solaris 8 CPIO file in > ASC mode and ran cpio against it. The results are similar to what you > show above.
And just for the records, Solaris usually creates cpio archives which are compatible with Cygwin. The output of file shows: Solaris$ find . | cpio -o > x.cpio Cygwin$ file x.cpio x.cpio: byte-swapped cpio archive Solaris$ find . | cpio -oc > x.cpio Cygwin$ file x.cpio x.cpio: ASCII cpio archive (SVR4 with no CRC) I just tried it, out of curiosity. Both variations are readable by GNU cpio. 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/
