On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 07:43:18PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > Boy, looking into an old RPM is not easy. RPM 4.2 won't read an RPM v2 > package, and my shell script version of rpm2cpio choked on it as well. Back in those days I used a script like this (since I wasn't running Red Hat yet): perl -e '$/="\x1f\x8b"; $_=<>; print $/; $/=undef; $_=<>; print;' \ | gzip -cd | cpio -vid Steve -- Steven Pritchard - K&S Pritchard Enterprises, Inc. Email: steve@xxxxxxxxx http://www.kspei.com/ Phone: (618)398-7360 Mobile: (618)567-7320