CPIO problem on 7300
Dave Jenks
jetfuel at babbage.csus.edu
Sat Mar 2 19:37:03 AEST 1991
In article <8178 at suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL> zaft at .nswses.navy.mil (Gordon C Zaft) writes:
> Hi! I just got my very own 7300 Unix PC (TM) up and running and
>I'm having a great time snarfing software for it, etc. HOWEVER--
>
> I ftp-ed a couple of software packages from osu-cis; specificlly,
>mtools and compress; compress comes as a CPIO package but when I try to
>un-cpio it by the command
>
> cpio -itv <compress.cpio (just trying to see what's there)
>I get an error message "Out of phase--get help".
Do this:
$ file compress.cpio
If it comes back with ASCII cpio archive, you must specify the 'c'
option to cpio:
$ cpio -ictv < compress.cpio
^
If this didn't help, perhaps it was not ftp-ed correctly. Did you
set binary transfer mode in ftp? As I understand it never hurts to
do this, and is virtually the only way to get non-text data using
ftp (unless it's uuencoded).
When in ftp, do this:
ftp> binary
ftp will make some comment to the effect that you are now in binary
transfer mode. Re-snarf.
--Dave
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