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Subject: Re: initramfs buffer spec -- second draft
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Daniel Phillips wrote:

> 
>>>From the man page:
> 
>    "The new ASCII format is portable between
>    different machine architectures and can be used on any size file system,  but  is
>    not supported by all versions of cpio; currently, it is only supported by GNU and
>    Unix System V R4."

> 

... which, between them, is virtually all Unices these days.

	-hpa