TAR DOES NOT SWAP BYTES

[Ed Gould]

In article <2818 at sun.uucp> guy at sun.uucp (Guy Harris) writes:
>                              If you must use "cpio", use "cpio -c";
>however, "tar" is more universal - it's in V7, 4.xBSD, and Systems III and V.

Agreed about cpio, but it's not clear that SysV has a real tar in all
cases.  When I visited a site of ATTIS a couple of years ago, they
insisted that I bring a cpio tape, since they weren't sure that their
3B20 tar could read tapes made on a VAX.  It turned out that I had left
something off the cpio tape that was on my standard tar tape, so we
caried the tar tape to a VAX, extracted the appropriate files, and
write them out again with cpio to move them to the 3B.

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