Aihnss.1458 net.bugs.v7 utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!mhtsa!ihnss!warren Fri Jan 22 12:50:11 1982 cpio bug Subject: cpio bug (This really concerns the internal BTL version of unix, 4.0, but is probably a more general problem). I have had several files that had been put through cpio into an archive and out again slightly altered. Wherever there was a 0 byte (null), it and the following character dissappeared. I can't find any reference in the documentation for cpio that it won't take files with nulls in them, and I am reasonably sure that I have used cpio archives for binary files before. Is this a bug or a misfeature? Has anyone else been similarly burned? Warren Montgomery ihnss!warren csvax.warren at Berkeley ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.