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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: tar .vs. cpio
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Date: Sat, 11-Aug-84 19:11:32 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 11 19:11:32 1984
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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).
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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