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"Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> It is on Windows because busybox cpio is not really good and busybox
> tar is even worse (for cpio emulation). Maybe I should just improve
> busybox cpio :-)

Sounds sensible, as it (at least its -p mode of operation) is
one of the programs that is very useful yet not so well known to
people new to UNIX.