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From: zeeff@b-tech.UUCP (Jon Zeeff)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How can I read a cpio archive with absolute pathnames?
Message-ID: <4400@b-tech.UUCP>
Date: 6 Apr 88 11:04:39 GMT
References: <407@vsi.UUCP> <4019@cup.portal.com> <434@vsi.UUCP>
Reply-To: zeeff@b-tech.UUCP (Jon Zeeff)
Organization: Branch Technology Ann Arbor, MI
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In article <434@vsi.UUCP> friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
>In article <4019@cup.portal.com>, itkin@cup.portal.com writes:
>> In article <407@vsi.UUCP>, I lament:
>> > Customers are always dumping cpio archives to floppy with
>> >
>> >	find / -print | cpio ...
>> >
>> >and it drives us crazy when we need to restore something and they

There is a comp.sources program called fixcpio that fixes damaged cpio 
archives (it's great for skipping over that one bad spot in a set of 
floppy backups).  It could be easily modified to remove a leading / 
from files names.  

--Jon
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Jon Zeeff           		Branch Technology,
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