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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: tar .vs. cpio
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Date: Sun, 12-Aug-84 17:44:36 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 12 17:44:36 1984
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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.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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