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From: chen@digital.sps.mot.com (Jinfu Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: SR10 - CPIO-bug ?!?
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Date: 9 Jul 90 16:07:41 GMT
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In article <4962@labtam.oz> scott@labtam.oz (Scott Colwell) writes:
> 
> I would prefer to use cpio rather than wbak/rbak for a number of reasons
> but have given up. At least wbak and rbak can use stdin and stdout now
> rather than being fixed to a device so that you can backup over the network
> to a larger QIC tape (QIC-150) or to an exabyte on one of our other machines.
> 
> (Looking forward to the day when I can have Mentor on real unix :-)


If you meant SysV.3 is real Unix with which cpio uncapable handling
symbolic link, then forget about the real Unix :-) At least tar
(available in both Sys5.3 and Bsd4.3) lets you choose to follow a
symbolic link or not.



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