tar fix
John Collins
jmc at root44.UUCP
Thu Sep 22 22:21:17 AEST 1983
I'm sorry to disagree with Guy Harris but the '-c' option of 'cpio',
and the '-ncpio' option of 'find' *ISN'T* portable as various versions of
cpio don't work where the 'sscanf' format is copied literally from the
documentation in CPIO(5 or 4 for System III or V respectively).
There should be a 'h' flag with various of the %6o options corresponding
to shorts.....
Ok it's fixed easily enough, but there are enough non-working versions about
not to regard it as portable.
Sigh.....
John Collins
Root Computers Ltd
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