Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 19 May 1998 18:00:33 -0700 (PDT) | | From | David Ford <> | | Subject | Re: RPMs :o( |
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On Tue, 19 May 1998, Peter Horton wrote: > If you search the file for the byte 0x1f followed by 0x8b (these bytes > mark a gzip file) and remove everything that precedes them, you will be > left a gzipped cpio archive, which you can then unzip and unpack.
is this header variable length? before i reinvent the wheel, have you or someone already made this short header stripper program? nothing fancy, just removing the header...right?
-d
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