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"David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> writes:
> pax(1) can read (ie, restore from tape) both tar and cpio archives.  So
> why litter /bin up with 3 programs when 1 will do?

Agreed, bsdtar can handle all those formats, so there's no real need
to have pax(1) or cpio(1) at all except perhaps as hard links to
bsdtat(1).

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