Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 16:33:54 +0200 From: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) To: zgabor@CoDe.hu (Zahemszky Gabor) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD questions), kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de Subject: Re: SCO tar formats - reading Message-ID: <Mutt.19970404163354.kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199704041243.OAA01189@CoDe.hu>; from Zahemszky Gabor on Apr 4, 1997 14:43:33 %2B0200 References: <199704041243.OAA01189@CoDe.hu> <199703301108.NAA08944@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Zahemszky Gabor writes: > > I have some floppies containing software (for the Jdyx graphics libarary, > > btw - kind of SVGALIB) and I would like to read it into my > > FreeBSD system but having difficulties with this. ALl I get is > > skipping tar header.... > > > > dd if=/dev/rfd0a | head : > > > > > > 0707070000010024670407000001440000010000100000000461715776200000200000000000.0707070000010024660407550001440000010000020000000463323247200000400000000000src0707070000010023551006440001440000010000030000000460235231000001200000000334src/asm.s .file "a.c" > > It's interesting, but not a tar header. It's nothing, but a ``cpio'' header > - as of my mind, and /etc/magic says. So try cpio, or pax to read it. I was afraid of that - that it would come to light that this ain't a tar header Thanks. Pax could cope with it. Didn't fiddle with cpio yet. > > Gabor > -- > #!/bin/ksh [interesting .sig deleted] -- --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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