Creating receiver.arf

Hi! Can someone tell me how to take the extracted files from receiver.arf and get them back into an acceptable receiver.arf file? I can use tar to extract all of the files and some of the images around are provided as directory structures (for use on an NFS mount), but I'd like to use the original software for pushing the .arf file.

Thanks!

-- Jeff Shapiro

It's a tar file. As long as you use a Unix box of some sort, and a tar utility that supports device nodes, and your tar utility doesn't do anything particularly bizarre, then it'll just work.

I booted into Linux on my PC, untarred the receiver.arf file into the directory structure that looked great (dev directory has special files, etc.)

Then I created a new tar file by sticking all those files back into a new .arf file.

The RIO (or the PC app) doesn't like the new .ARF file. The filesize is identical. Any options I should specify for the TAR operation?

Thanks,

-- Jeff

Did you create the tar file as root (or under fakeroot)? Try that. "tar cfp" should be enough.

any help for doing this in Dos on an xp machine? I can get the Tar file extracted using any number of utillities but have problems getting it back togther to the right file size.

any help for doing this in Dos on an xp machine?

Nope. Windows won't correctly extract the device files, and so can't correctly put the file back together.

You could try a copy of tar from cygwin, and figure out the parameters required to replace files in place.

Alternatively, someone (Frank van Gestel?) had a utility for updating the .arf file in place.