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From: stu@jpusa1.UUCP (Stu Heiss)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: re. a better cpio/tar
Message-ID: <124@jpusa1.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 9-Apr-86 11:18:35 EST
Article-I.D.: jpusa1.124
Posted: Wed Apr  9 11:18:35 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Apr-86 13:55:40 EST
Reply-To: stu@jpusa1.UUCP (Stu Heiss)
Organization: JPUSA - Chicago, IL
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Keywords: tar, cpio

[replace the line-eater]
The recent suggestions about the shortcomings of cpio point to the
obvious solution - we need a decent public domain cpio (and tar).
My gripes about this pair include cpio's inability to handle multiple
tapes/disks and tar's inability to have the filelist on stdin.  It
would be a worthwhile project for the usenet community to develope
public domain inplementations so we can fix them to work reasonably.
If someone has even a rough version of tar and/or cpio and would
post, we could get the ball rolling.
-- 
Stu Heiss {ihnp4!jpusa1!stu}