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Subject: Re: More tar/cpio
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Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 09:16:00 EDT
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From: <ihnp4!gorgo!bsteve> (Steve Blasingame)

dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) Writes:

>The obvious choice seems to be the tar archive format (more widely used and
>available) with cpio's user interface.

The significant issue regarding cpio that has not been addressed is the
function of copying directory trees to directory trees. There is not another
standard tool that performs this important function.

[ I use tar to do this all the time.  The 4.3BSD man page includes:

               Tar can also be used to move
               hierarchies with the command
                 cd fromdir; tar cf - . | (cd todir; tar xf -)

-mod ]

  Steve Blasingame (Oklahoma City)
  ihnp4!gorgo!bsteve

Volume-Number: Volume 11, Number 46