On 25 Oct, Doug Stalker wrote:
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> What flags are you passing cpio in SCO? There is a -c flag that write
> steh header in text instead of binary, and it says in the SCO cpio man
> page that this is required for archives being moved between different
> system types.
For many years this worked fine. In the last couple of years, people
began modifying the semantics of the 'c" flag so that newer versions of
cpio could not read old cpio archives that had been written with the "c"
option specified.
The old c format now has to be read with something like this:
cpio -idvH odc < file.cpio
The latest version also seems to have a bug so that when writing an old
c format archive, it will usually but not always work. If, when you
read back files written with odc format and an old cpio complains about
skipping kilobytes of junk, then you've hit this bug, most likely.
And this whole thing pisses me off enormously. I wrote to some of the
programmers when I realised what had happened, and basically got a reply
that said "So? What's wrong with that?".
luke
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