From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 15 23:14:51 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA02068 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 23:14:51 -0800 Received: from isl.cf.ac.uk (isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk [131.251.22.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA02062 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 1995 23:14:49 -0800 Received: (from paul@localhost) by isl.cf.ac.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) id HAA21438; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 07:14:53 GMT From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199503160714.HAA21438@isl.cf.ac.uk> Subject: Re: cpio bug ? To: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 07:14:52 +0000 (GMT) Cc: nate@trout.sri.MT.net, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503160608.WAA10227@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Mar 15, 95 10:08:47 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 759 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Poul-Henning Kamp who said > > > Have we looked at PAX? It's a 4.4 thing, and it's supposed to do both > > cpio and tar like functions. (I think it can also do cpio and tar > > formats, which means that it could replace both of them) > > > Until it understands both the commandline syntax'es it will not be able > to replace anything. Uhh, I think he meant we could just start using it for release work, not actually replace the cpio and tar binaries, though that should be a longer term goal. -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home) Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, JANET(UK): RICHARDSDP@CARDIFF.AC.UK