[net.sources] All these squishing programs parse date stringaw

rjk (01/06/83)

Yes all one need to do is mv, cpio, mkdir, etc., etc., etc.  But
when's the last time we had a free 4 hours to do 5 65K filesystems?
The squish programs are *fast* and do not require doubling the
data blocks in the particular filesystem if the copy remains in
the filesystem.

Why even use cpio when cd, cp, chown, chgrp, and chmod in a "for"
loop would do the same thing?

Do you like slow programs?  Ever notice that bin/basename and
bin/dirname are SHELL SCRIPTS?  Put that crap in a 5000 iteration
"for" loop and explain to your boss why stuff isn't done on time.

UNIX is supposed to be both easy AND EFFICIENT.  Why do we need
to keep sacrificing efficiency for complicated ease?

							Randy King