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From: jmc@root44.UUCP (John Collins)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: tar fix
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Date: Thu, 22-Sep-83 08:21:17 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 22 08:21:17 1983
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I'm sorry to disagree with Guy Harris but the '-c' option of 'cpio',
and the '-ncpio' option of 'find' *ISN'T* portable as various versions of
cpio don't work where the 'sscanf' format is copied literally from the
documentation in CPIO(5 or 4 for System III or V respectively).

There should be a 'h' flag with various of the %6o options corresponding
to shorts.....

Ok it's fixed easily enough, but there are enough non-working versions about
not to regard it as portable.

		Sigh.....

			John Collins
			Root Computers Ltd
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