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- Submitted-by: conklin@kaleida.com (J.T. Conklin)
-
- I like cpio's ability to take a list of files on standard input, but
- was suprised when I converted a tar archive of pbmplus executables
- (about 1MB) to a cpio archive (about 20MB). It turns out that cpio,
- unlike tar, stores the contents of each hard linked file in the
- archive.
-
- For those who don't know, pbmplus is usually compiled into a few
- executables which are then hard-linked together, thus saving huge
- amounts of disk space.
-
- I found a cpio "clone", afio, which does not do that. The first file
- is output as normal, but subsequent instances are output with a zero
- length.
-
- Archives produced by afio are successfully extracted by every version
- of cpio I've been able to test it with. Is this behavior acceptable?
-
- I'm asking this because I'd like to add a similar feature to the cpio
- furnished with 386BSD (but only if the archives it would produce are
- still standards complient).
-
- --jtc
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- Volume-Number: Volume 30, Number 64
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