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From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (The WITNESS)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: tar .vs. cpio
Message-ID: <259@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 22:07:13 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 14 22:07:13 1984
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First, both tar and tp were in V7 Unix.  Second, V7-flavored Unixes (including
99% of Xenix) lack cpio; -c format with ^J at the end of a header would not
be readable by us.  I find the #!/bin/sh stuff bad enough as it is; PLEASE
don't do THAT to me! :-)

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