tar .vs. cpio
Henry Spencer
henry at utzoo.UUCP
Mon Aug 13 07:44:36 AEST 1984
It's worth noting that it is quite possible to write "tpio", i.e. a
program with the cpio user interface but the tar data format. There
is no doubt that some of cpio's facilities are useful, but this is a
case where it's quite possible to have your cake and eat it too, by
combining some of the neat bits of user interface in cpio with the
much-more-widely-standard tar data format.
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Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry
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