Unix without tar?

[Engineering]

 In article <10889 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
 >In article <JES.89Aug30102233 at mbio.med.upenn.edu> jes at mbio.med.upenn.edu (Joe Smith) writes:
 >>Recently, someone asserted that tar archives aren't a suitable
 >>distribution format because they aren't understood by every Unix.
 >
 >"tar" archives may not be suitable, but it's not because "tar" is
 >unavailable.  Every AT&T UNIX release since 7th Edition (around 1978)
 >has included some version of "tar"; it's "cpio" that may not exist
 >everywhere (particularly 4.2BSD-based systems).


That's not entirely correct.  I've seen some 3b2 machines without tar.
We still ship product for the 3b2 in cpio format because of this.
(Note: 3b2 is an AT&T box).

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