Re: IIUG94UC2-ifx user group

Posted in 2003

Topics: Installation, Setup & Upgrades, Platform-Specific Issues, Internationalization & Character Sets

Jonathan Leffler — Wed, 24 Dec 2003 06:32:44 GMT — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Xavier wrote: > Hi, > It doesn't work for me... > > I treid to read archive on debian > The size is : 196751360 > > > I used this syntax : "cpio -icvdBum < IDS2000.cpi" > ...and this message : "cpio: premature end of file" > > I tried this to list the content : > cpio -itv < IDS2000.cpi > -rw-rw-rw- 1 39155 1360 36019200 Jul 8 20:35 Gls.cpi > -rw-rw-rw- 1 39155 1360 157992960 Jul 8 20:35 IDSServer.cpi > -rw-rw-rw- 1 39155 1360 2688000 Jul 8 20:35 Message.cpi > -rwxr-xr-x 1 39155 1360 13130 Jul 8 20:21 install_gls > -rwxr-xr-x 1 39155 1360 13517 Jul 8 20:21 install_msg > -rwxr-xr-x 1 39155 1360 23182 Jul 8 20:21 installserver > > no error... As you later posted, cpio -ivdumB < IDS2000.cpi would have worked for you. There is a significant difference in the expected format for cpio archives when you do and don't specify the -c flag. You have to be consistent. If the file lists without -c, then the extract does not need the -c option; if the file lists with the -c, then the extract needs the -c option. What's worse, Linux seems to have the use of the -c flag backwards from the rest of Unix. That which needs -c on other systems does not on Linux, and vice versa. -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2003.04 -- http://dbi.perl.org/

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Captain Pedantic — Wed, 24 Dec 2003 09:30:18 -0000 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"Jonathan Leffler" <jleffler@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:gqaGb.17595$Pg1.3210@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net... > What's worse, Linux seems to have the use of the -c flag backwards > from the rest of Unix. Is Linux a variant of UNIX then?