Re: tlug: SCO package format

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Austin Kurahone wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm still struggling with the SCO package format, and I have mannaged to
> discover some things.  I think that SCO uses a modivied version of cpio 
> because the following occurs.
> 
> bash# file VOL.000.000
> VOL.000.000: ASCII cpio archive (pre-SVR4 or odc)
> bash# 
> 
> Unfortuneately, trying to use cpio to extract the files just gives me a 
> bunch of errors.
> I would enormously appriciate any help that I can get in resolving this 
> matter.
> The reason that I'm so persistent is because according to sCO, Merge 
> will allow 
> me to run almost all of the programs for 95, at near native performace.
> 

Why don't you just use SCO's unpacking program w/ iBCS?

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