From: noer@cygnus.com (Geoffrey Noer) Subject: Re: cpio problem 14 Apr 1998 21:34:23 -0700 Message-ID: <199804142026.NAA10198.cygnus.gnu-win32@skaro.cygnus.com> References: Content-Type: text To: Ian@kiwiplan.co.nz (Ian Collins) Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Ian Collins wrote: > > 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? Almost certainly, the redirect is happening in text mode while the -I inputs the file in binary mode. -- Geoffrey Noer noer@cygnus.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".