How can I read a cpio archive with absolute pathnames?

[Jon Zeeff]

In article <434 at vsi.UUCP> friedl at vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
>In article <4019 at cup.portal.com>, itkin at cup.portal.com writes:
>> In article <407 at vsi.UUCP>, I lament:
>> > Customers are always dumping cpio archives to floppy with
>> >
>> >	find / -print | cpio ...
>> >
>> >and it drives us crazy when we need to restore something and they

There is a comp.sources program called fixcpio that fixes damaged cpio 
archives (it's great for skipping over that one bad spot in a set of 
floppy backups).  It could be easily modified to remove a leading / 
from files names.  

--Jon
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