Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: tar .vs. cpio Message-ID: <4208@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Sun, 12-Aug-84 17:44:36 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.4208 Posted: Sun Aug 12 17:44:36 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Aug-84 17:44:36 EDT References: <198@ucbopal.CC.Berkeley.ARPA>, <3883@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 9 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. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry