Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site callan.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrb!scgvaxd!wlbr!callan!geoff From: geoff@callan.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: tar .vs. cpio - (nf) Message-ID: <215@callan.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Aug-84 22:46:33 EDT Article-I.D.: callan.215 Posted: Thu Aug 16 22:46:33 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 03:47:12 EDT References: <226@haddock.UUCP>, <2541@mit-eddie.UUCP>, <3948@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Callan Data Systems, Westlake Village, CA Lines: 8 Nobody seems to have mentioned special files. Cpio correctly saves and restores the files in /dev and fifo's. Most tar's break on this (although, again, this can be fixed easily). -- Geoff Kuenning Callan Data Systems ...!ihnp4!wlbr!callan!geoff