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From: drg@candidus.ma30.bull.com (Daniel R. Guilderson)
Subject: Re: any chance of...
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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1993 17:47:27 GMT

In article <1993Mar31.031615.5064@coe.montana.edu> nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:

   Me, the main reason I like tar is because I know tar.  I don't know cpio.

"I knew Mr. Tar, Mr. Tar was a good friend of mine, and you, Mr. Cpio
are no Mr. Tar."

That's a good enough reason for me.  I have trouble enough trying to
remember the flags for one archiving program, never mind two.  I vote
for tar.