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Date:      Mon, 26 May 2008 20:07:14 +0200
From:      Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To:        cvs-src@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/cpio Makefile bsdcpio.1 cmdline.c config_freebsd.h cpio.c cpio.h cpio_platform.h err.c matching.c matching.h pathmatch.c pathmatch.h src/usr.bin/cpio/test Makefile main.c test.h test_0.c test_basic.c test_format_newc.c ...
Message-ID:  <20080526180714.GB27297@britannica.bec.de>
In-Reply-To: <20080526172717.GA93432@freebsd.org>
References:  <200805261715.m4QHFZUK070554@repoman.freebsd.org> <20080526172717.GA93432@freebsd.org>

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On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 07:27:17PM +0200, Roman Divacky wrote:
> can you please summarize what are the advantages/differences from gnu-cpio?

It has a proper man page.
It behaves more sane when writing newc archives with hardlinks.
It has understandable source code.
It is BSD licensed.

Joerg


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