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: <4204@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Sat, 11-Aug-84 19:11:32 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.4204 Posted: Sat Aug 11 19:11:32 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Aug-84 19:11:32 EDT References: <198@ucbopal.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 10 Cpio pre-dates tar, I believe, and the USG/USDL/whatever-it's-called- -this-week turkeys didn't have the brains to drop cpio when tar arrived. The last /usr/group standards meeting tentatively recommended using tar as the standard tape format for interchange work, due to much wider availability and better standardization ("cpio" is not a single format, it's at least three different ones). -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry