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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!sitka.triumf.ca!felawka From: felawka@sitka.triumf.ca (Larry Felawka) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Format of src files Date: 10 Apr 1993 20:21:46 GMT Organization: TRIUMF, Vancouver BC Lines: 20 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1q7a8qINNqrn@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <1q4ninINNfns@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sitka.triumf.ca In article <1q4ninINNfns@no-names.nerdc.ufl.edu>, kem@cis.ufl.edu (Kelly Murray) writes: |> I downloaded the 386bsd sources, and have been trying to unpack them |> on a SGI. I understand they are in compressed cpio format? |> I tried doing a |> % zcat src*.* | cpio -itv |> but cpio claims they are not in cpio format. I tried -b thinking |> it was a byte-order problem, but that also failed. |> What am I missing? |> -Kelly The unpacking of the 386BSD distribution files doesn't work on some systems because the cpio file headers are binary (thus making the disributions non- portable to other systems). I have written a quick-'n-dirty filter which does byte swapping in the cpio headers, thereby allowing me to explode the 386BSD distributions on an IRIX system. I will make it available upon request on condition that you do not tell anyone where you got it from (I am not a programmer). Larry