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From: dir@koala.UUCP (Dan Rosenblatt)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,alt.sources
Subject: Re: floppy archives
Summary: consider afio (cpio super-set)
Message-ID: <641@koala.UUCP>
Date: 7 Feb 90 04:00:52 GMT
References: <1990Feb5.061515.12448@chinet.chi.il.us> <1990Feb6.060828.24206@chinet.chi.il.us>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Sigma Design Inc., Denver, CO
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I have taken afio, a public-domain super-set of cpio from someone at
Lachman Associates, which has error-recovery & multiple volume handling &
lots of other stuff, and added compression (compress 4.0).  We are using
it to distribute our next product release, and its impressive.  We cut
our diskette count from 8 to 4.

Dan Rosenblatt
Sigma Design, Inc.