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SubjectRe: Abbott and Costello meet Crunch Time -- Penultimate 2.5 merge candidate list.
Werner Almesberger wrote:

>Rob Landley wrote:
>
>
>>Yeah, cpio is a pain and change to use, but so is tar.
>>
>>
>
>Somebody who strogly dislikes cpio could just write wrapper accepting
>tar-style options. Or add a --cpio option to GNU tar, that switches
>to using the cpio format. One could even try to auto-detect the
>format when reading :-)
>
>- Werner (hates cpio, but not enough)
>
>


Well, FWIW, "pax" deprecates both cpio and tar.

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/utilities/pax.html

In theory pax turns cpio and tar into shell scripts.

Jeff




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