cpio problem

[Geoffrey Noer]

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.

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Geoffrey Noer
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