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From: caf@omen.uucp (Chuck Forsberg)
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Subject: Re: tar or cpio?
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Date: Sun, 10-May-87 10:19:17 EDT
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From: caf@omen.uucp (Chuck Forsberg)

I have played with a program "afio" which is what cpio should/might have
been.  Main features are much faster than cpio, and reads all sorts of
cpio archives, most notably damaged archives.

Out of Sync --- It gets its own help!

This could be the basis of a POSIX cpio program.
Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX Author of Pro-YAM communications Tools for PCDOS and Unix
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