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)
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