From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 4 06:20:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA09682 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 06:20:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA09677 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 06:19:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id QAA13258; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 16:20:12 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id QAA07819; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 16:33:55 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: 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 References: <199704041243.OAA01189@CoDe.hu> <199703301108.NAA08944@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.58e Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199704041243.OAA01189@CoDe.hu>; from Zahemszky Gabor on Apr 4, 1997 14:43:33 +0200 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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