Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 04 Nov 2002 18:02:20 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Abbott and Costello meet Crunch Time -- Penultimate 2.5 merge candidate list. |
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Werner Almesberger wrote:
>Rob Landley wrote: > > >>Yeah, cpio is a pain and change to use, but so is tar. >> >> > >Somebody who strogly dislikes cpio could just write wrapper accepting >tar-style options. Or add a --cpio option to GNU tar, that switches >to using the cpio format. One could even try to auto-detect the >format when reading :-) > >- Werner (hates cpio, but not enough) > >
Well, FWIW, "pax" deprecates both cpio and tar.
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/utilities/pax.html
In theory pax turns cpio and tar into shell scripts.
Jeff
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