Hi Douglas, > Besides, this was the only cpio-related mailing list that I could find.
Yes, and this list is the right place for such discussions. > I'm writing an emacs application to handle cpio(1) archives. It is > intended, in part, to work like tar-mode and dired. That's very interesting. > However, with some archives (and some entries within those archives, > it looks to me like the *filesize* field is too large by one byte. Do you have a sample of such an archive for me to analyze? > If you care, a copy of the current source is attached. Thanks a lot! It's of great interest to me, as I'm a long-time emacs user. Regards, Sergey
