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Subject: Re: tar vs. cpio
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Date: Tue, 2-Jun-87 13:15:32 EDT
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From: <gmt@arizona.edu> (Gregg Townsend)

I agree with you on this and appreciate the effort it took to collect
all the various points in a single document.  Here is one additional
point about the ASCII cpio format that I think is worth mentioning:

	n.  Even when a cpio archive is composed entirely of text
	    files, it can be tricky to transport because the file
	    name is terminated by a 00 byte.


Hope this is helpful.  Do with it what you wish.

     Gregg Townsend / Computer Science Dept / Univ of Arizona / Tucson, AZ 85721
     +1 602 621 4325      gmt@Arizona.EDU       110 57 17 W / 32 13 47 N / +758m

Volume-Number: Volume 11, Number 43