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- From: guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
- Date: 29 Jan 87 07:05:00 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View
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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.
-
- Yes, but "tar" can be used to do the same things, and is available on
- more systems. Since the interchange format (which is *not* a tape
- format, BTW, but an "Archive/Interchange File Format", so you can use
- it to transmit hierarchies with UUCP, "rcp", etc.) is an extended
- form of "tar"s, "tar" might be the more useful program to
- standardize.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 9, Number 34
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