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From: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>
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To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>
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On Monday 04 November 2002 23:02, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Werner Almesberger wrote:
> >Rob Landley wrote:
> >>Yeah, cpio is a pain and change to use, but so is tar.
> >
> >Somebody who strogly dislikes cpio could just write wrapper accepting
> >tar-style options. Or add a --cpio option to GNU tar, that switches
> >to using the cpio format. One could even try to auto-detect the
> >format when reading :-)
> >
> >- Werner (hates cpio, but not enough)
>
> Well, FWIW, "pax" deprecates both cpio and tar.
>
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/utilities/pax.html
>
> In theory pax turns cpio and tar into shell scripts.

I thought shell archives went out in the 1980's for security reasons...

>     Jeff

Rob

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