Subj : fido utils
To   : Deuce
From : Angus Mcleod
Date : Sun Jun 19 2005 10:55 pm

  Re: fido utils
  By: Deuce to Angus Mcleod on Sun Jun 19 2005 20:12:00

 >  > Yes, but nobody actually *uses* 'cpio' do they?   ;-)
 > 
 > I do fairly regularily... and I think the RPM format is a cpio archive unles
 > I'm terribly mistaken.  There are a few limitations to the tar format that I
 > sometimes need to get around.

The only time I've used 'cpio' over 'tar' is when actually writing a tape 
archive.

But that machine is dead now, so hopefully I'll never have to look it up 
again!  :-)


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