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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!wupost!uunet!mcsun!ieunet!dec4ie.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Subject: Re: any chance of... In-Reply-To: nate@cs.montana.edu's message of Tue, 30 Mar 1993 04: 17:06 GMT Message-ID: <JKH.93Mar30220435@whisker.lotus.ie> Sender: usenet@ieunet.ie (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: whisker.lotus.ie Organization: Lotus Development Ireland References: <matthew.733339478@femto.engr.mun.ca> <1p84lbINN1j1@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> <JKH.93Mar30023319@whisker.lotus.ie> <1993Mar30.041706.28158@coe.montana.edu> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1993 22:04:35 GMT Lines: 12 I thought the primary rational for using cpio was that it was smart enough to prompt for media change! The few times I tried this with GNU tar (admittedly last with 1.8), it didn't work. Anyone care to comment on whether multiple-floppy distributions are made easier/harder with cpio over tar? Jordan -- Jordan Hubbard Lotus Development Ireland jkh@whisker.lotus.ie 386bsd Patchkit Coordinator All-around nice dude. I do not speak for Lotus as that's not in my job description.