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- utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!mhtsa!ihnss!warren
- Fri Jan 22 12:50:11 1982
- cpio bug
- Subject: cpio bug
-
- (This really concerns the internal BTL version of unix, 4.0, but is
- probably a more general problem).
-
- I have had several files that had been put through cpio into an
- archive and out again slightly altered. Wherever there was a 0 byte
- (null), it and the following character dissappeared. I can't find
- any reference in the documentation for cpio that it won't take files
- with nulls in them, and I am reasonably sure that I have used cpio
- archives for binary files before. Is this a bug or a misfeature?
- Has anyone else been similarly burned?
-
- Warren Montgomery
-
- ihnss!warren
- csvax.warren at Berkeley
-