zaft@.nswses.navy.mil (Gordon C Zaft) (03/01/91)
Hi! I just got my very own 7300 Unix PC (TM) up and running and I'm having a great time snarfing software for it, etc. HOWEVER-- I ftp-ed a couple of software packages from osu-cis; specificlly, mtools and compress; compress comes as a CPIO package but when I try to un-cpio it by the command cpio -itv <compress.cpio (just trying to see what's there) I get an error message "Out of phase--get help". So, HELP! Sorry if this is an obvious question. Thanks. -- + Gordon Zaft | zaft@suned1.nswses.navy.mil + + NSWSES, Code 4Y33 | suned1!zaft@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov + + Port Hueneme, CA 93043-5007 | Phone: (805) 982-0684 FAX: 982-8768 + ** Ray Kaplan is a God! *** "Quoth the raven: Eat My Shorts!" -- B. Simpson **
jetfuel@babbage.csus.edu (Dave Jenks) (03/02/91)
In article <8178@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL> zaft@.nswses.navy.mil (Gordon C Zaft) writes: > Hi! I just got my very own 7300 Unix PC (TM) up and running and >I'm having a great time snarfing software for it, etc. HOWEVER-- > > I ftp-ed a couple of software packages from osu-cis; specificlly, >mtools and compress; compress comes as a CPIO package but when I try to >un-cpio it by the command > > cpio -itv <compress.cpio (just trying to see what's there) >I get an error message "Out of phase--get help". Do this: $ file compress.cpio If it comes back with ASCII cpio archive, you must specify the 'c' option to cpio: $ cpio -ictv < compress.cpio ^ If this didn't help, perhaps it was not ftp-ed correctly. Did you set binary transfer mode in ftp? As I understand it never hurts to do this, and is virtually the only way to get non-text data using ftp (unless it's uuencoded). When in ftp, do this: ftp> binary ftp will make some comment to the effect that you are now in binary transfer mode. Re-snarf. --Dave -- ======================================================================= "Pro is to con, as progress is to Congress..." >>-@@-> Dave Jenks {uunet | ucbvax!ucdavis}!csusac!jetfuel =======================================================================
zaft@spc1ed6.nswses.navy.mil (Gordon C Zaft) (03/03/91)
In article <1991Mar2.083703.27179@csusac.csus.edu> jetfuel@babbage.csus.edu (Dave Jenks) writes: >In article <8178@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL> zaft@.nswses.navy.mil (Gordon C Zaft) writes: > >Do this: > > $ file compress.cpio > >If it comes back with ASCII cpio archive, you must specify the 'c' >option to cpio: > > $ cpio -ictv < compress.cpio > ^ > The -c option is exactly what was needed! Problem solved! Thanks to Dave and also the several people who responded by e-mail. Now, I still need a Development Set, if anyone has one they want to sell..... This is one nify machine.... I'm really very pleased so far. Now if I just had a 9600 baud modem....:-) -- + Gordon Zaft | zaft@suned1.nswses.navy.mil + + NSWSES, Code 4Y33 | suned1!zaft@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov + + Port Hueneme, CA 93043-5007 | Phone: (805) 982-0684 FAX: 982-8768 + ** Ray Kaplan is a God! *** "Quoth the raven: Eat My Shorts!" -- B. Simpson **