Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.questions.comp.unix.sysv386
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From: mvadh@cbnews.att.com (andrew.d.hay)
Subject: Re: cpio -ivt
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 90 11:16:12 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Oct17.111612.27651@cbnews.att.com>
References: <1990Oct16.203913.18533@mccc.uucp>
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In article <1990Oct16.203913.18533@mccc.uucp>, pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) writes:
> AT&T SV/386 R3.2.2.  Shouldn't "cpio -itv < /dev/<tape_device>" give me
> a display of all the files on the tape???

unless the archive was made with the -c option...

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