From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 20 06:14:31 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA26464 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 06:14:31 -0800 Received: from vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de [129.187.142.36]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA26300 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 1995 06:07:44 -0800 Received: (from jhs@localhost) by vector.enet (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA23531; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 15:56:32 +0100 Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 15:56:32 +0100 From: Julian Howard Stacey Message-Id: <199503161456.PAA23531@vector.enet> To: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk, phk@ref.tfs.com Subject: Re: cpio bug ? Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > From: Paul Richards Uhh, I think he meant we could just start using it for release work, not actually replace the cpio and tar binaries, though that should be a longer term goal. ---- Not convinced, no doubt gnu tar will continue to grow, & unless we have a guarantee that pax will quickly emulate every gtar nuance .... Julian S