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From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: TAR DOES NOT SWAP BYTES
Message-ID: <471@mtxinu.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 17:39:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: mtxinu.471
Posted: Mon Sep 30 17:39:40 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Oct-85 04:39:11 EDT
References: <235@thunder.UUCP> <604@neuro1.UUCP> <2818@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley, CA
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In article <2818@sun.uucp> guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris) writes:
>                              If you must use "cpio", use "cpio -c";
>however, "tar" is more universal - it's in V7, 4.xBSD, and Systems III and V.

Agreed about cpio, but it's not clear that SysV has a real tar in all
cases.  When I visited a site of ATTIS a couple of years ago, they
insisted that I bring a cpio tape, since they weren't sure that their
3B20 tar could read tapes made on a VAX.  It turned out that I had left
something off the cpio tape that was on my standard tar tape, so we
caried the tar tape to a VAX, extracted the appropriate files, and
write them out again with cpio to move them to the 3B.

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