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Subject: Re: tar vs. cpio
Message-ID: <8248@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 7-Jun-87 13:17:33 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun  7 13:17:33 1987
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From: billj@dvlmarv.uucp (Bill Jones)

In article <8188@ut-sally.UUCP> you write:
>                However, cpio was not available outside AT&T
>                before the release of System III, while tar was in
>                wide use with Version 7 and is still much more common.

My memory is fuzzy now, but I recall cpio having been distributed on
the V7 addendum tape, whose other contents were (I think) fsck, the
line printer driver, and a c2 cured of certain overoptimism.  (This is
a nit picked for historical accuracy only:  I believed then, and still
do, that tar is the better format.  I'm not even keen that this should be
posted, especially if you cannot verify the assertion.)
[ Can anybody verify this?  -mod ]
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