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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: Never mind! :-} 
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 11:55:20 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> tar avoids the problem by only checking the garbage for character and block
> special files.  I think it gets truncated otherwise.
> 
> pax avoids the problem by zeroing st_rdev except for character and block
> special files before checking it.

I'm all for fixing bugs at their source, but why not make cpio do the
same thing for the time being?  I'm loath to switch horses right now
due to unforseen problems.  Maybe I'll revisit the whole "which
archiver we use" issue shortly, but I just wanted to get working
again.  I seem to have done so in any case and will be releasing a
SNAP shortly..

						Jordan