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Posted: Mar. 07 2006,15:19

Is this some type of limited functionality cpio ? No -o option seems provided, only extract and list.

mikshaw

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Posted: Mar. 07 2006,15:54

cpio in DSL is part of Busybox, so you're probably correct that it has limited functionality.
If you need a full-featured cpio, maybe it is in the gnu-utils mydsl package. I don't know for sure.

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