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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: cpio -ivt
Message-ID: <15970@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Date: 19 Oct 90 04:11:43 GMT
References: <1990Oct16.203913.18533@mccc.uucp> <34947@cup.portal.com>
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In article <34947@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
>                                                              ... the 'B'
>option of cpio is simply too slow.  One could also write a double-buffering
>routine to be piped, but that's a sophistication AFTER one is assured a tape
>can be read.

It doesn't take too much sophistication to put a 'dd bs=32k |' in front
of your cpio/tar/pax command.  This gives you double buffering without
having to write any code.

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