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From: eric@snark.uucp (Eric S. Raymond)
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Subject: Re: tar and cpio
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Date: Sun, 10-May-87 23:39:20 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 10 23:39:20 1987
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Approved: jsq@sally.utexas.edu (Moderator, John Quarterman)

I'd favor leaving in the tar specification *and* adding cpio. That way,
users of a POSIX-conforming system get the best of both. I think tar's
only real advantage is the multi-volume capability, otherwise cpio is much
superior. What would *really* win is a spec for multi-volume cpio (perhaps
P1003.2 should do this).

BTW, I contributed some stuff to one of the draft versions of Section 10
(specifically, the proposal for a multi-volume tar format with the
ability to recover from a missing volume that is also upward-compatible with
the present one), so I feel like I have something of a proprietary interest
in this stuff. Please email me with an update if you don't get enough response
to merit a posting.

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