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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/cpio Makefile bsdcpio.1 cmdline.c
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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