Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Copying /dev/* to another partition
Message-ID: <3412@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 31 May 90 19:22:51 GMT
References: <109757@linus.UUCP> <2538@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Use cpio or tar for this purpose. That's the way to do it.

Well, "cpio", anyway; SunOS "tar" doesn't know about character or block
special files, which are what he's trying to copy.  However, "pax"
should, and SunOS 4.1 has "pax".