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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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>> Interesting figures.  I assume you eliminate tar because of cpio?  I
>> notice that we still have tar on our CPIO floppy (awful name, BTW -
>> it's time to change it!), do we need it ourselves or are we just being
>> nice? I would guess that we can and should eliminate the last of the
>> direct tar usage in the next release, deciding once and for all on
>> *one* archiver (either retain cpio or go to pax!).

>We should offer this to Bruce, too.  He's the only one that has ever
>been looking into the awful minor # story.  I'm quoting the above
>completely for him (and send it to him, too).

`cpio -H newc' and dump/restore work to back up /dev.  tar fails silently
after 18 bits.  pax fails (silently?) after 8 bits.  pax's copy mode
works but so does ordinary `cp -pR' (except `cp -pR' breaks links...).

Bruce