Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 23:39:18 -0800 (PST) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: paul@isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) Cc: nate@trout.sri.MT.net, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cpio bug ? Message-ID: <199503160739.XAA10453@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199503160714.HAA21438@isl.cf.ac.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Mar 16, 95 07:14:52 am
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> > > 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 <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'
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