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Subject: Re: tar vs. cpio
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Date: Thu, 11-Jun-87 15:08:56 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 11 15:08:56 1987
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Summary: I don't think I said that.

From: jsdy@hadron.uucp (Joseph S. D. Yao)

John,

Thanks for an excellent summary.  However, I don't think I ever
said that System III or System V didn't have tar.  I don't have
an archive to check, but that may have been when I posited that
V7 distribution tapes probably did not come in tar format, since
prior to that tar had not been distributed.  System V may have
had tar from the beginning.  I do not remember about System III.

Berkeley 4BSD tapes did come in tar format, I remember; but they
assumed that you had already received your V7/32V tapes, and were
in a different format from the V7/32V tapes.
[ You're evidently referring to some pretty old BSD tapes. -mod ]

Once tar had come out, versions were written which could read
tar distribution tapes under V6 and PWB 1.0.  (PWB was released
outside of AT&T, BTW.)

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