> > > > 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? > > thanks, > > 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.
hmm, no I got it straight off the dvd it was burnt to. maybe it just doesn't like flar files. -- 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/
