Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site twg.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!pesnta!twg!karl From: karl@twg.UUCP (Karl Auerbach) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: tar .vs. cpio -- flame! Message-ID: <174@twg.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 12:31:28 EDT Article-I.D.: twg.174 Posted: Tue Aug 14 12:31:28 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Aug-84 02:39:55 EDT References: <198@ucbopal.CC.Berkeley.ARPA>, <1108@sdcsvax.UUCP> Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto CA Lines: 14 When discussing software it is unfair to make a statement such as: "it would be easy to add X" or "it would be easy to modify X to do Y". We need to deal with concrete, existing entities. Otherwise the discussion becomes too metaphysical. The point is that cpio and tar do some things that are similar and some which are not. Rather than saying that one is better than the other because it can be modified to include the good points of the other, we could identify the strengths and weaknesses of each program and perhaps make a choice of which program to upgrade. Karl Auerbach {allegra,fortune,decwrl,ihnp4,ucbvax}!twg!karl