Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ncoast.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!decwrl!decvax!cwruecmp!atvax!ncoast!bsa 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 Article-I.D.: ncoast.259 Posted: Tue Aug 14 22:07:13 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 03:28:31 EDT References: <198@ucbopal.CC.Berkeley.ARPA> <1108@sdcsvax.UUCP> Organization: North Coast XENIX, Cleveland Lines: 12 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! :-) --bsa -- Brandon Allbery: decvax!cwruecmp{!atvax}!bsa: R0176@CSUOHIO.BITNET ^ Note name change! 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, OH 44131 <> (216) 524-1416 "The more they overthink the plumbin', the easier 'tis tae stop up the drain."