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From: kinmonthprep@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
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Subject: Re: GNU tar
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Date: 5 Jan 89 16:35:10 GMT
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In article <7369@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>Does anyone have modifications to GNU tar to work with the SysVr3
>directory routines (and perhaps some macros to replace the things
>in port.c)?  Also, is there likely to be a GNU cpio?  The enhancements
>look great but I wish it could use cpio-style headers instead of the larger
>tar version for each file.

I have a total rewrite of the first GNU tar that includes directory
routines for V7 (same as Sys III ?), 4.? BSD, and MSDOS. It runs under
MSDOS 3.x, SCO Xenix, 4.3 BSD, etc.

A PD version of cpio has been posted, but I have not tried it. I gave
up on cpio (despite the somewhat higher storage density) because it is
much, much harder to recover damaged cpio archives than it is tar
archives. Also, most versions of cpio do not recognize output device
size limitations.