re. a better cpio/tar

[Sam Kendall]

In article <124 at jpusa1.UUCP>, stu at jpusa1.UUCP writes:
> My gripes about this pair include cpio's inability to handle multiple
> tapes/disks ....

Is there any reason why the archiving program needs to handle output to
the tape or disk, as tar does?  It would seem cleaner to say something
like

        ...  | cpio -oc | write-to-tape

where "write-to-tape" takes care of multiple tapes, and also (if
appropriate) compression or checksumming.

Please reply by mail; I'll summarize.

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