From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 15 23:39:36 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA02250 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 23:39:36 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA02243 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 23:39:35 -0800 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id XAA10453; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 23:39:18 -0800 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199503160739.XAA10453@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: cpio bug ? To: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 23:39:18 -0800 (PST) Cc: nate@trout.sri.MT.net, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503160714.HAA21438@isl.cf.ac.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Mar 16, 95 07:14:52 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 705 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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. Last I looked cpio was smaller... -- Poul-Henning Kamp -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'