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cpio 2.2

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From: Andy Fyfe
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:33
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I found cpio can be used to copy devices, but I found that if a
device had multiple links, it was not restored as such, but as
separate files.   This is also true for named pipes.

My system is the AT&T 3b1, running system V (about release 2).
Enclosed is a typescript using names pipes.

Andy Fyfe					andy@cs.caltech.edu

marmot !1 $ cd test
marmot !2 $ ls -li
total 0
  3244 prw-r--r--   2 andy     users           0 Jan 25 18:27 copy
  3244 prw-r--r--   2 andy     users           0 Jan 25 18:27 pipe
marmot !3 $ ls -li ../test2
total 0
marmot !4 $ ls * | cpio --pass --verbose ../test2
../test2/copy
../test2/pipe
0 blocks
marmot !5 $ ls -li ../test2
total 0
  3240 prw-r--r--   1 andy     users           0 Jan 25 18:31 copy
  3239 prw-r--r--   1 andy     users           0 Jan 25 18:31 pipe
marmot !6 $ cpio --version
GNU cpio version 2.2
marmot !7 $ exit
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