On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 10:43:59AM -0400, Joe Buehler wrote: > 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.
tar's T option. > - GNU cpio can unpack just about anything -- feed it into stdin > and it figures it out. What I like in cpio is how easy you can copy a whole directory tree. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc.
