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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers read from cd Post 302076765 by sak900354 on Thursday 15th of June 2006 11:35:55 AM
Old 06-15-2006
read from cd

I have sco unix 5.0

Kindly i want to restore data from cd ; I am putting this command and recieving :

find . -print | cpio -icduvB</dev/cd0
cpio: this is not a cpio file, bad header

kindly help
 

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cpio(4) 						     Kernel Interfaces Manual							   cpio(4)

NAME
cpio - format of cpio archive DESCRIPTION
The header structure, when the option of is not used (see cpio(1)), is: When the option is used, the header information is described by: Longtime and Longfile are equivalent to and respectively. The contents of each file are recorded together with other items describing the file. Every instance of contains the constant 070707 (octal). The items through have meanings explained in stat(2). The length of the null-terminated path name including the null byte, is given by The last record of the archive always contains the name Directories and the trailer are recorded with equal to zero. It will not always be the case that and correspond to the results of but the values are always sufficient to tell whether two files in the archive are linked to each other. When a device special file is archived by HP-UX (using the option), contains a magic constant which is dependent upon the implementation doing the writing. flags the device file as an HP-UX 32-bit device specifier, and contains the 32-bit device specifier (see stat(2)). If the option is not present, special files are not archived or restored. Non-HPUX device special files are never restored. SEE ALSO
cpio(1), find(1), stat(2). STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
cpio(4)
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