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Lars Hammarstrand lasse at daab.UUCP
Thu Nov 7 00:48:53 AEST 1985


> >In article <169 at daab.UUCP> lasse at daab.UUCP (Lars Hammarstrand) writes:
> >
> >Why doesn't anybody write a GOOD AND PORTABLE cptree(1) with some flags
> >like this....	(It shall manage to copy special files too)
> >
> >[list of features follows]
>
>In article <136 at desint.UUCP> geoff at desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) writes:
>AT&T did, a while ago.  It's called cpio.  Most of your suggested features
>are supported directly;  the rest are easy with 'find' and 'comm' pipes.
>-- 
>
>	Geoff Kuenning
>	{hplabs,ihnp4}!trwrb!desint!geoff


Are you sure that you can find CPIO on every system round the world?

When I said "GOOD AND PORTABLE", I meant that everybody should have the
oppotunity to use a true utlilty like cptree(1)...

	Lars Hammarstrand.



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