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From: geoff@callan.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: tar .vs. cpio - (nf)
Message-ID: <215@callan.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Aug-84 22:46:33 EDT
Article-I.D.: callan.215
Posted: Thu Aug 16 22:46:33 1984
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References: <226@haddock.UUCP>, <2541@mit-eddie.UUCP>, <3948@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Organization: Callan Data Systems, Westlake Village, CA
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Nobody seems to have mentioned special files.  Cpio correctly saves and
restores the files in /dev and fifo's.  Most tar's break on this (although,
again, this can be fixed easily).
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	Geoff Kuenning
	Callan Data Systems
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