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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!decuac!pa.dec.com!jrdzzz.jrd.dec.com!tkou02.enet.dec.com!tlaeng.enet.dec.com!engage.pko.dec.com!irenaeus.mlo.dec.com!eje Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: 386bsd cross-cpio fix! Message-ID: <1992Aug21.194924.24383@engage.pko.dec.com> From: eje@irenaeus.mlo.dec.com (Eric James Ewanco) Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 19:49:24 GMT Reply-To: ewanco@kalvin.enet.dec.com Sender: newsdaemon@engage.pko.dec.com (USENET News Daemon) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 25 OK, folks. Several people mentioned problems with using native cpio on their non-Intel system, unable to unarchive the BSD distribution. I also ran into this problem, but none of the suggestions helped me; the cpioswap program, -s, -b, -c. Someone suggested using the 386BSD cpio program, except that one needs to access the archive in order to get it. But since the 386BSD cpio should be the standard BSD cpio, I downloaded BSD CPIO and I compiled it. It works (once I set the _PATH_TTY #define to "/dev/". Ignore the libraries). For those who want it, cpio.c.Z should be available on gatekeeper.dec.com, pub/bsd-sources-2/usr.bin/cpio/cpio.c.Z. If anyone wants it I'll mail it to them. Eric Ewanco -- /=============================================================================\ | Eric Ewanco - Software Engineer For the rash and outrageous opinions ex-| | Digital Equipment Corp, Maynard MA pressed herein I alone am responsible; | | ewanco@kalvin.enet.dec.com they do not belong to DIGITAL(TM). | \==============================- 2 Th 2:15 -==================================/