Agi.108 net.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!menlo70!sytek!gi!mike Sun Jan 3 20:40:06 1982 Re: Reply to: cpio If you are running on a vax and have the Bell 32/V license and distribution, dig out the tape and look for /etc/cpio and /usr/src/cmd/cpio.c. Its all there except for the manual page. You'll have to get the manual page from a PWB/UNIX manual. Cpio is a predecessor to TAR(1). In the version on the vax, it even allows larger tape blocks. The pwb one didn't. In some ways I prefer it to tar. Especially because it has a -p option (for pass) that allows cpio to copy a directory hierarchy from disk to disk in a single pass (unlike the tar method of two tars passing data thru a pipe). Mike Wendel General Instrument R&D, Phoenix Az. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.