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Subject: Re: tar vs. cpio
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Date: Sun, 14-Jun-87 16:09:29 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 14 16:09:29 1987
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From: guy@sun.com (Guy Harris)

> 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. ...
> [ Can anybody verify this?  -mod ]

No, but I think I can refute it with a reasonable degree of accuracy.
It's been a while since I've seen the V7 addendum tape, but I don't
remember "cpio" being on it.  (There were other things, like a
beefed-up F77, some fixes to "fgrep", and a newer version of "awk".
The versions that came with various 4BSD releases seemed to be the V7
addendum tape versions; "cpio" didn't come with any 4BSD release,
which suggests that "cpio" wasn't on the V7 addendum tape, although
it doesn't indicate it for sure.)

Volume-Number: Volume 11, Number 62