HELP: Unknown CPIO errors and problems

[Barton A. Fisk]

In article <245 at twg.wimsey.bc.ca>, bill at twg.wimsey.bc.ca (Bill Irwin) writes:
> I  sure  hope  someone more familiar with cpio than I am reads  this  and
> takes  pity on me!  After a long search for some RM/Cobol-85 diskettes to
> recover a file, I can't read them.
> 
> They  were written in cpio format (why I don't know) and the  description
> on  the label says to use "cpio -icdv </dev/fd096ds15".  We get an  error
> that  says  "Out  of  phase -- get help"  and  sometimes  "Cannot  create
> directory <>  (errno 2)".
> 
Try this:

1. Log in as root
2. from root directory execute "mkdir rmcobol"
3. execute "cd rmcobol"
4. Load developement diskette
5. execute "cpio -icdv < /dev/fd096ds15"


I think your error may have been failure to make the rmcobol directory
first, as errno 2 is directory spec'd in pathname doesn't exist.


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