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From: allyn@sdcsvax.UUCP (Allyn Fratkin)
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Subject: Re: Beware of Blindly Un-SHARing a File
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In article <243@mrstve.UUCP>, rjk@mrstve.UUCP (Richard Kuhns) writes:
> Am I being naive in suggesting that cpio be used?  
> 
> If I've overlooked some obvious problem, please break it to me gently -- I'm
> a very sensitive person :-)...

Unfortunately, you have overlooked something.  cpio -...c for reasons that
are not entirely clear to me, places a NULL at the end of the file name.
This fact alone makes it useless for most mail traffic because many
systems will remove the NULL.

If cpio had only left out the NULL, you would have a portable archive.
Still, this would not be as useful as shar because many sites do not have
cpio.
-- 
 From the virtual mind of Allyn Fratkin            allyn@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu    or
                          UCSD EMU/Pascal Project  {ucbvax, decvax, ihnp4}
                          U.C. San Diego                         !sdcsvax!allyn

 "Generally you don't see that kind of behavior in a major appliance."