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From: chips@usfvax2.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: cpio: Microport <-> Xenix
Message-ID: <839@usfvax2.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 20-Sep-87 11:14:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: usfvax2.839
Posted: Sun Sep 20 11:14:10 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Sep-87 21:35:47 EDT
References: <232@puck.UUCP>
Organization: AT Engineering, Tampa, FL
Lines: 21
Keywords: not multi-volume
Summary: cpio?  Just say "tar"

In article <232@puck.UUCP>, asp@puck.UUCP (Andy Puchrik) writes:
} I was recently moving some s/w via floppy from uport to xenix when I got
} a rude shock.  [...]
} Xenix cpio exits to shell after writing a full floppy or reading in
} the first of a multi-volume set.
} 
} I know about the xenix backup command, but I like the flexibility of cpio.
} Is it possible to read a multi-volume cpio set of floppies on xenix?
} -- 
} Internet: asp@puck.UUCP			Andy Puchrik

Why mess with cpio at all?  Tar works on SCO, it's fast, and it's portable
all the way back to Version 7.  If Microport doesn't have `tar', it isn't
UNIX.  :-)

Unless you have huge files, use the `e' option, which prevents splitting of
files across floppies.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg            UUCP: "uunet!ateng!chip"  or  "chips@usfvax2.UUCP"
A.T. Engineering, Tampa    Fidonet: 137/42    CIS: 73717,366
"Use the Source, Luke!"    My opinions do not necessarily agree with anything.