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- In article <8006@ut-sally.UUCP> guy@sun.com (Guy Harris) writes:
- > 3) It is less common. Almost all UNIX systems that support
- > "cpio" also support "tar"; many UNIX systems that support
- > "tar" do not support "cpio".
-
- Guy's arguments are mostly good, especially when reasoning about
- the byte-order problem. It should perhaps be noted, though, that
- cpio pre-dates tar, and that there are probably numerous systems
- "out there" that have cpio but not tar. This, at least, seems to
- be one of the arguments used by X/OPEN.
-
- Of course, terms like "numerous", "almost all", and "many" are
- hard to argue against, because they're so fuzzy.
-
- Personally, I have found good use for both (cpio -p is rather
- more elegant than the 2-tar equivalent kludge). However, I have
- had minutely more foul-ups with cpio than with tar. (At least,
- with current versions of tar.)
-
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