old (1990) cpio archive reporting the error: unknown file type

[Alice Lecinski]

I have a very old cpio archive written in approximately 1990.

It was most likely written on a VAX VMS (~linux) system.

This is historical data and fairly important...

When I attempt to get the files using:

cpio -iv --no-absolute-filenames --force-local --format='bin' < FILE_001 

I get the following output:

cpio: ecl9w2: unknown file type

ecl9w2

cpio: g: unknown file type

g

cpio: ssss: unknown file type

ssss

cpio: t: unknown file type

t

wwww

5480 blocks

When I then do an 'ls', the 'wwww' file has been created.   But none of the other files:

'ecl9w2', 'g', 't'

exist.   

The 'wwww' file is ascii and readable.   I know the 'ecl9w2' file is binary.

Any suggestions?

Thank you,

Alice

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Alice Lecinski                                
Associate Scientist IV                    
High Altitude Observatory            www2.hao.ucar.edu

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