tar or cpio, which is better?

[Robert Claeson]

In a recent article klarich at d.cs.okstate.edu (KLARICH TERRY JAME) writes:

>I know that cpio will also archive the special and device fines usualy
>found in in /dev.  How ever, I think I remember that cpio won't handle
>symbolic links properly.  I really don't remember if this was for
>everyone's cpio or just one vender's.

Those vendors whose systems has symbolic links (ie, most of them)
have generally extended their cpio's to handle symbolic links. And,
surprise, they have commonly done it in compatible ways. I routinely
move cpio files with symbolic links among Sun's, Encore Multimax'es,
DG AViiON's etc.

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