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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!news!netlabs!lwall From: lwall@netlabs.com (Larry Wall) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: backup w/ compression for UN*X? Message-ID: <1992Sep3.172907.12163@netlabs.com> Date: 3 Sep 92 17:29:07 GMT References: <1992Sep3.015437.15379@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <dtb.715502483@otto> Sender: news@netlabs.com Organization: NetLabs, Inc. Lines: 10 Nntp-Posting-Host: scalpel.netlabs.com In article <dtb.715502483@otto> dtb@otto.bf.rmit.oz.au (David Bath) writes: : paoletti@cps.msu.edu (David R. Paoletti) writes: : Remember - very few UNIX commands do everything, but they can be : hooked together easily. I guess the exception is perl(1) and : probably cpio [-alphabet] :-) Perl can be hooked together easily. I dunno about cpio... :-) Larry Wall lwall@netlabs.com