tar .vs. cpio

The WITNESS bsa at ncoast.UUCP
Wed Aug 15 12:07:13 AEST 1984


First, both tar and tp were in V7 Unix.  Second, V7-flavored Unixes (including
99% of Xenix) lack cpio; -c format with ^J at the end of a header would not
be readable by us.  I find the #!/bin/sh stuff bad enough as it is; PLEASE
don't do THAT to me! :-)

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