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Article #1033Re: tar vs. cpio
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Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1987 17:17
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1987 17:17
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From: billj@dvlmarv.uucp (Bill Jones) In article <8188@ut-sally.UUCP> you write: > However, cpio was not available outside AT&T > before the release of System III, while tar was in > wide use with Version 7 and is still much more common. My memory is fuzzy now, but I recall cpio having been distributed on the V7 addendum tape, whose other contents were (I think) fsck, the line printer driver, and a c2 cured of certain overoptimism. (This is a nit picked for historical accuracy only: I believed then, and still do, that tar is the better format. I'm not even keen that this should be posted, especially if you cannot verify the assertion.) [ Can anybody verify this? -mod ] -- Bill Jones, Develcon Electronics, 856 51 St E, Saskatoon S7K 5C7 Canada uucp: ...ihnp4!sask!zaphod!billj phone: +1 306 931 1504 Volume-Number: Volume 11, Number 53
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!husc6!ut-sally!std-unix From: std-unix@ut-sally.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.std.unix Subject: Re: tar vs. cpio Message-ID: <8248@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Sun, 7-Jun-87 13:17:33 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-sally.8248 Posted: Sun Jun 7 13:17:33 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Jun-87 18:40:33 EDT References: <8188@ut-sally.UUCP> Sender: std-unix@ut-sally.UUCP Reply-To: billj@dvlmarv.uucp (Bill Jones) Organization: Develcon Electronics, Toronto Lines: 19 Approved: jsq@sally.utexas.edu (Moderator, John Quarterman)