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DateWed, 16 Jan 2002 15:40:17 -0500 (EST)
FromBill Davidsen <>
SubjectRe: initramfs buffer spec -- second draft
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote:

> In a perfect world we would settle of one of big or little-endian and 
> byte-swap as appropriate, as we do with, e.g., Ext2 filesystems.  However it 
> seems that cpio in its current form has no concept of byte-swapping.  Cpio(1) 
> can neither generate nor decode a cpio file in the 'foreign' byte sex.  So if 
> we are determined to use cpio as it stands, then we are stuck with the goofy 
> ASCII encoding, does that sum up the situation?
> 
> Too bad about that, otherwise cpio seems quite reasonable.

I have to go back and look, isn't -Hcrc endian-neutral?

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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