(tar .vs. cpio) : a question

Larry Tepper lat at stcvax.UUCP
Wed Aug 15 01:39:02 AEST 1984


Can anyone give me any good reasons why these programs
are unable to handle multi-volume tapes?  (We're running
4.1, but our System V documentation makes no mention of
this ability for cpio, and 4.1 tar doesn't mention it either).
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