Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 07:33:14 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: j@uriah.heep.sax.de, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com Cc: bde@godzilla.zeta.org.au, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, install-geeks@FreeBSD.org, joerg@sax.de, nate@trout.sri.mt.net, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de Subject: Re: MBONE interfaces and snazzy install tools. Message-ID: <199504012133.HAA20753@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> Interesting figures. I assume you eliminate tar because of cpio? I >> notice that we still have tar on our CPIO floppy (awful name, BTW - >> it's time to change it!), do we need it ourselves or are we just being >> nice? I would guess that we can and should eliminate the last of the >> direct tar usage in the next release, deciding once and for all on >> *one* archiver (either retain cpio or go to pax!). >We should offer this to Bruce, too. He's the only one that has ever >been looking into the awful minor # story. I'm quoting the above >completely for him (and send it to him, too). `cpio -H newc' and dump/restore work to back up /dev. tar fails silently after 18 bits. pax fails (silently?) after 8 bits. pax's copy mode works but so does ordinary `cp -pR' (except `cp -pR' breaks links...). Bruce
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