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From: Steve Brown <freebsd@prayforwind.com>
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Thanks Joe,

Here's what I get. Am I doing something wrong or is my file bad?

$ ls -l
total 720
-rw-r--r--  1 steve  steve  717047 Apr  6 19:01 abispell-en-CA-0.9.6-1.i386.rpm
$ rpm2cpio abispell-en-CA-0.9.6-1.i386.rpm > abispell-en-CA-0.9.6-1.i386.cpio
CPIO archive found!
$ echo abispell-en-CA-0.9.6-1.i386.cpio | cpio -id
cpio: premature end of archive
$

<snip>
 
> rpm2cpio <rpm name>
> 
> Then, you need to use cpio -id to extract the cpio.
> 
> echo <cpio filename> | cpio -id
> 
> Joe
</snip>

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