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From: arritt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: availability of bru
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.091625.31261@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 5 Jun 91 14:16:25 GMT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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I like using 'bru' a lot better than 'tar'.  But my UNIX textbooks all
discuss tar, and NONE of them include bru (granted they're a few years
old).  So my question is -- if I write all my tapes using bru, will they
be readable on other systems?  i.e., Is bru widely enough used that I
can be reasonably sure that the tapes will be readable at some as-yet
unknown institution on some unknown system, at some unknown time in the 
future?  Or should I stick with tar to guarantee this?

(Apologies if this is a Dumb Question.)
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