cpio vs. tar. was: OSR5 install of 971031

[teunis]

>   >  Even though X/open has marked it "to be withdrawn" and SUSv2 tags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?
> Lots used to not ship cpio, that's changed over time.
> 
>   > If we were to do anything more ambitious autoconf-ish, would it be 
>   > any wiser to test for pax and use it instead of either tar or cpio?
>   > Then we'd have three different install-headers-* targets, and I doubt
>   > that would be a lot of fun, either.
> I'd prefer to just stick with tar/cpio between those two we should
> have every significant unix covered.
> 
> I wouldn't object to removing the "B" from the tar options and then
> removing cpio support -- I'm not aware of a system that doesn't ship
> tar (then again, maybe you are :-)

WindowsNT? *ducking*

G'day, eh? ;]
	- Teunis
[so when's the next win32-capable image going to appear? :]
(don't answer - I'll watch for announcements)