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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!news!netlabs!lwall
  2. From: lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
  4. Subject: Re: backup w/ compression for UN*X?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep3.172907.12163@netlabs.com>
  6. Date: 3 Sep 92 17:29:07 GMT
  7. References: <1992Sep3.015437.15379@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <dtb.715502483@otto>
  8. Sender: news@netlabs.com
  9. Organization: NetLabs, Inc.
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  13. In article <dtb.715502483@otto> dtb@otto.bf.rmit.oz.au (David Bath) writes:
  14. : paoletti@cps.msu.edu (David R. Paoletti) writes:
  15. : Remember - very few UNIX commands do everything, but they can be
  16. : hooked together easily.  I guess the exception is perl(1) and
  17. : probably cpio [-alphabet] :-)
  18.  
  19. Perl can be hooked together easily.  I dunno about cpio...  :-)
  20.  
  21. Larry Wall
  22. lwall@netlabs.com
  23.