On Apr 14, 6:53 pm, Scott McMillan <smcmil...@twmi.rr.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:34:02 -0700 (PDT), Dnix <denn...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> >On Apr 14, 6:05 pm, Scott McMillan <smcmil...@twmi.rr.com> wrote:
> >> On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:39:09 -0700 (PDT), Dnix <denn...@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
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> >> >On Apr 14, 3:34 pm, foolsrushout <6...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> Dnix wrote:
> >> >> > Can anyone confirm if oss660a getty supplement for SCO 5.0.6 is
> >> >> > valid , I have downloaded about 5 times renamed it to VOL.000.000 and
> >> >> > each time I install , it says its not a valid archive
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> >> >> > many thanks all
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> >> >> Have you tried reading it with vi?
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> >> >sure it also contains a lot of non-printable chars and file * says
> >> >ascii.txt not cpio.archive
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> >> I just downloaded it fromhttp://www.sco.com/support/ftplists/osr5list.htmlandhad no issue
> >> with it. It is indeed a cpio archive.
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> >> From where (and using what method) are you downloading it?
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> >> Scott McMillan
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> >downloaded using ftp to ftp.sco.com
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> You'll have to be a bit more specific - I just downloaded
> ftp.sco.com//pub/openserver5/oss660a with WS-FTP via Windows XP and it
> is indeed a cpio archive.
>
> Scott McMillan

actually I downloaded by ftp using a windows ftp program , ftp
transfer mode was set to auto , and when that did not seem to work I
set ftp transfer mode to binary , I passed the files to the unix box
using the sco vision