From: Bob_McGowan@xstor.com (Bob McGowan) Subject: RE: cpio problem 14 Apr 1998 21:33:10 -0700 Message-ID: <8B40B8756FA1D111BCB900A02495E24F36B426.cygnus.gnu-win32@neptune.xstor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain To: "'Ian Collins'" Cc: "'gnu-win32@cygnus.com'" There has been lots of talk recently about binary vs. text mode with pipes in bash (it seems bash defaults the pipe to text mode). This may also apply to I/O redirection. I also saw one post that seemed to indicate that ash.exe, in the B19 distribution, does not set text mode. You could try running ash.exe, then the cpio < file and see if that works. If so, then this would be another good example of why text mode I/O operations are "not good". Please accept my apologies for sending you this directly as well as to the list. The list is so flakey and slow currently that I felt this would be the more reliable and speedy way to get an answer to you. Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com -----Original Message----- From: Ian Collins [mailto:Ian@kiwiplan.co.nz] Sent: Monday, April 13, 1998 10:12 PM To: 'Gnu Mailing list' Subject: cpio problem I have just compiled and made cpio on gnu win32 b19. I tested it with a 400Mb binary cpio file. If I use, cpio -icv < file.cpio then it gets a premature end of file error. However, if I use, cpio -icv -I file.cpio then it works OK. What is stdin doing? Ian Collins. KIWIPLAN NZ. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help". - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".