From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Bill Walker" To: egcs@cygnus.com Subject: cpio vs. tar Date: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 07:38:00 -0000 Message-id: X-SW-Source: 1997-11/msg00144.html Forwarded message: > Is it really worth the bother? Isn't cpio one of those utilities > that's been around since UNIX was distributed on clay tablets? Even > though X/open has marked it "to be withdrawn" and SUSv2 tags it as > "legacy" suggesting that "Applications should migrate to the pax > utility.", would any OS vendor not ship cpio? > > > > Alternately, we can continue to patch this one system at a time until > we all die. Here's one that should fix the system this was reported > on. > Hmm. At the risk of generating a lot of flying pieces, how about just including GNU cpio (or GNU tar) with the compiler in the first place ? If that is a political/technical atrocity, perhaps a "minimal" utility could be created and shipped. Something like a "shar" which might run under any boat-anchor with a shell. (Duck! Duck!) BW -- Bill Walker Ph.D. Chairman, Dept. of Computer Science East Central University Ada, Oklahoma 74820-6899 e-mail: bw@cs.ecok.edu phone: 580 332 8000 ext. 594 FAX: 580 332 4616