Nicholas Wourms wrote: > I can't believe there are people who still use cpio! Is this a emacs > build thing or do you honestly prefer to use cpio?
I honestly prefer GNU cpio. - Unlike tar, cpio has always been able to take a list of files on stdin. - GNU cpio can unpack just about anything -- feed it into stdin and it figures it out. - GNU cpio can create just about any format (-H option). There is a note in GNU tar that it doesn't do POSIX format, so GNU cpio and GNU tar may be out of sync on this, thus the repackaging. Joe Buehler
