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From: paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Copying and preserving file info
Message-ID: <17977@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 89 16:41:25 GMT
References: <338@trux.UUCP> <1989Dec11.185225.15922@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <881@lzaz.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: paula@bcsaic.UUCP (Paul Allen)
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle
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In article <881@lzaz.ATT.COM> hcj@lzaz.ATT.COM (HC Johnson) writes:
>In article <1989Dec11.185225.15922@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>, jk0@image.soe.clarkson.edu (Jason Coughlin) writes:
>> From article <338@trux.UUCP>, by car@trux.UUCP (Chris Rende):
>> > cp won't do it, cpdir won't do it, tar won't do it, etc...
>
>I have a clone of cpio that does what you say.
>You probably have access to UNIX sources; port over CPIO and its done.

Umm...  Doesn't his source license prevent him from using the sources on
some non-licensed cpu?  If cpio is really what's wanted, there are at
least two non-proprietary options: afio and pax.  The Minix tar program
is pretty puny, but a real tar will do what Chris wants.  I've got the
1.07 version of GNU tar working under Minix 1.3.  It's still behaving
a little strangely, so I hesitate to post diffs just yet.  If there's
interest, I'll post after I'm sure it's stable.

Paul Allen

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