cpio -ivt

[Tom Neff]

In article <34947 at cup.portal.com> thad at cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
>                                                              ... the 'B'
>option of cpio is simply too slow.  One could also write a double-buffering
>routine to be piped, but that's a sophistication AFTER one is assured a tape
>can be read.

It doesn't take too much sophistication to put a 'dd bs=32k |' in front
of your cpio/tar/pax command.  This gives you double buffering without
having to write any code.

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