1003.2 Command Groups

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From: akgua!mtgzz!bds at seismo.css.gov (b.d.szablak)
Date: 16 Jan 87 13:44:21 GMT
Organization: AT&T, Middletown NJ

> > I suggest that "cpio" be excluded.  Maybe they'll stop distributing
> > System V on byte-order-dependent cpio tapes if it becomes non-standard.
> 
> Agreed.  P1003.1 has already defined a standard interchange format, and it's
> not cpio (it is, in fact, a somewhat extended tar).

I rarely use cpio to create tapes, but I often use cpio... Principally
for transmitting via uucp et. al. multiple files (a cpio file is more
manageable), and for moving and copying files in directory hierarchies.

Volume-Number: Volume 9, Number 32