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cpio vs. tar
- To: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Subject: cpio vs. tar
- From: "Bill Walker" <bw at student dot ecok dot edu>
- Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 09:22:48 -0600 (CST)
Forwarded message:
> Is it really worth the bother? Isn't cpio one of those utilities
> that's been around since UNIX was distributed on clay tablets? Even
> though X/open has marked it "to be withdrawn" and SUSv2 tags it as
> "legacy" suggesting that "Applications should migrate to the pax
> utility.", would any OS vendor not ship cpio?
>
>
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> Alternately, we can continue to patch this one system at a time until
> we all die. Here's one that should fix the system this was reported
> on.
>
Hmm. At the risk of generating a lot of flying pieces, how about
just including GNU cpio (or GNU tar) with the compiler in the first place ?
If that is a political/technical atrocity, perhaps a "minimal" utility
could be created and shipped. Something like a "shar" which might
run under any boat-anchor with a shell. (Duck! Duck!)
BW
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