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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>
Cc: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>,
	dcinege@psychosis.com, andersen@codepoet.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Abbott and Costello meet Crunch Time -- Penultimate 2.5 merge candidate list.
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 18:02:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DC6FC7C.7080105@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20021104195229.C1407@almesberger.net

Werner Almesberger wrote:

>Rob Landley wrote:
>  
>
>>Yeah, cpio is a pain and change to use, but so is tar.
>>    
>>
>
>Somebody who strogly dislikes cpio could just write wrapper accepting
>tar-style options. Or add a --cpio option to GNU tar, that switches
>to using the cpio format. One could even try to auto-detect the
>format when reading :-)
>
>- Werner (hates cpio, but not enough)
>  
>


Well, FWIW, "pax" deprecates both cpio and tar.

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/utilities/pax.html

In theory pax turns cpio and tar into shell scripts.

    Jeff





  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-04 22:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-28  2:17 Abbott and Costello meet Crunch Time -- Penultimate 2.5 merge candidate list Rob Landley
2002-10-28  8:25 ` Vamsi Krishna S .
2002-10-28  9:55   ` Skip Ford
2002-10-28 10:35     ` Vamsi Krishna S .
2002-10-28 10:29 ` Andrew Walrond
2002-10-28 10:40   ` Rob Landley
2002-10-28 12:15   ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-10-28 13:31   ` Dave Jones
2002-10-28 14:05     ` Andrew Walrond
2002-10-28 14:42       ` Andrew Walrond
2002-10-28 15:02       ` Alan Cox
2002-10-30  7:29 ` Dave Cinege
2002-10-30  7:40   ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-30  8:22     ` Dave Cinege
2002-10-30  8:37       ` Russell King
2002-10-30  9:32         ` Dave Cinege
2002-10-30  8:41       ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-30  8:51       ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-30  9:00         ` Miles Bader
2002-10-30  9:06           ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-30  9:19             ` Miles Bader
2002-10-30  9:26               ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-30  9:38                 ` Miles Bader
2002-10-30  9:42                   ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-30 10:50                   ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-30  9:34             ` Russell King
2002-10-30 10:07               ` Dave Cinege
2002-10-30  9:36             ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-30 10:52               ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-30  9:55           ` Dave Cinege
2002-10-30  9:59             ` Miles Bader
2002-10-30 10:24               ` Dave Cinege
2002-10-30 10:05             ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-30 10:14               ` Dave Cinege
2002-10-30 10:24                 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-30 10:42                   ` Dave Cinege
2002-10-30 11:06                     ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-30  9:55         ` Dave Cinege
2002-10-30 10:29           ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-04  2:13           ` Rob Landley
2002-11-04  7:39             ` Help needed with IRQ on Ali chipset Jacek Pliszka
2002-11-04 13:10             ` Abbott and Costello meet Crunch Time -- Penultimate 2.5 merge candidate list Alan Cox
2002-11-04 22:52             ` Werner Almesberger
2002-11-04 23:02               ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-11-04 18:16                 ` Rob Landley
2002-11-04 23:22                 ` Werner Almesberger
2002-10-30 14:32       ` Alan Cox

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