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- From: akgua!mtgzz!bds@seismo.css.gov (b.d.szablak)
- Date: 16 Jan 87 13:44:21 GMT
- Organization: AT&T, Middletown NJ
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- > > I suggest that "cpio" be excluded. Maybe they'll stop distributing
- > > System V on byte-order-dependent cpio tapes if it becomes non-standard.
- >
- > Agreed. P1003.1 has already defined a standard interchange format, and it's
- > not cpio (it is, in fact, a somewhat extended tar).
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- I rarely use cpio to create tapes, but I often use cpio... Principally
- for transmitting via uucp et. al. multiple files (a cpio file is more
- manageable), and for moving and copying files in directory hierarchies.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 9, Number 32
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