Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 07:14:52 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk> To: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: nate@trout.sri.MT.net, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cpio bug ? Message-ID: <199503160714.HAA21438@isl.cf.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <199503160608.WAA10227@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Mar 15, 95 10:08:47 pm
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In reply to Poul-Henning Kamp who said > > > Have we looked at PAX? It's a 4.4 thing, and it's supposed to do both > > cpio and tar like functions. (I think it can also do cpio and tar > > formats, which means that it could replace both of them) > > > Until it understands both the commandline syntax'es it will not be able > to replace anything. 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. -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home) Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, JANET(UK): RICHARDSDP@CARDIFF.AC.UK
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