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From: marcus@pyuxt.UUCP (M. G. Hand)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: tar Vs cpio
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Date: Tue, 14-Aug-84 20:10:56 EDT
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I've always found cpio quite adequate and usable, except for one thing:
I want a -U option which would UNCONDITIONALLY copy files over existing
ones whose permissions were, eg 444. Of course, it should still obey
the other rules about ownership (ie it would overwrite those files
which would be deleted by rm -f).  This would save a lot of hassle.

		Marcus Hand	(pyuxt!marcus)