[plug] unkown archive file

[Leon Brooks]

Mike Holland wrote:
> Alex has received some new Linux software with truly bad install
> instructions. e.g. it tells you to use /dev/rmt0 when the files are
> actually on CD. The instructions give a "cpio" command, but cpio doesnt
> seem to recognise the data. Nor does Solaris cpio. Nor does the "file"
> command. But it does look like some kind of archive format.
> Does anybody recognise the following please?

Perhaps an antique form of cpio or tar? Try some compatibility options.
Are you sure it's Linux? It might be a self-extracter from something
else. Or it might really be a tape archive dumped onto CD and require
deblocking or other bizarrity before it's readable.

> ^@ÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÓÿL 01F4 15:58:20  05 Jul 1999 1073947 DATA SB+
> [much line noise axed]

The first dozen lines from something like hexdump -xc might be more
useful. (-:

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