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From: Armin.Gruner
Date: Tue, 21 May 1991 17:48
Date: Tue, 21 May 1991 17:48
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Auf FTP.Informatik.TU-Muenchen.de[131.159.0.110] ist neu:
cpio-1.2.tar.Z - Package description:
This is GNU cpio. To compile it, edit the Makefile and type `make'.
cpio.def is a linker definition file for the OS/2 version.
cpio.cs is a compiler shell script for the OS/2 version with MSC 6.0.
The compiler shell `cs' is a shareware program written by
Kai-Uwe Rommel (rommel%informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de@relay.cs.net);
it was posted in comp.binaries.os2 twice (two versions).
makefile.pc is a makefile for MS C 6.00 and its NMAKE to create
a MSDOS (not OS/2) version.
rmt, the remote tape server (which must reside in /etc), is also
included.
The main advantages of GNU cpio over the Unix versions are:
* It can access tape drives on other hosts using TCP/IP.
* It can use any I/O block size, with `+block-size'.
* `-o' and `-p' can copy symbolic links either as symbolic links or,
with `-L', as the files they point to.
* `-i' automatically recognizes ASCII, binary, and byte-swapped binary
cpio archives, and skips any junk between files, to try to recover
from corrupted archives. `-b' and `-c' force it to only recognize
binary (either byte ordering) or ASCII archives.
* The output of '-itv' looks like 'ls -l'.
* It accepts long-named options as well as traditional
single-character options.
Some features of other versions of cpio are missing from GNU cpio,
including:
* Byte swapping of data with `-i'.
-b swap bytes and 16-bit words within each 32-bit word
-s swap bytes within each 16-bit half-word (dd conv=swab can do this)
-S swap 16-bit words within each 32-bit word
* The `-6' option to support Sixth Edition Unix cpio archives with `-i'.
* An option to limit volume size, like afio -s.
73007 bytes is the size of this package; possible locations are:
ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de - /pub/GNU/cpio/cpio-1.2.tar.Z
prep.ai.mit.edu - /pub/gnu/cpio-1.2.tar.Z
Gruesse,
Armin.
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Nur wer sich aendert, bleibt sich treu - Wolf Biermann \/
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