[comp.unix.wizards] Light relief

domo@riddle.UUCP (Dominic Dunlop) (12/23/88)

In article <4407@xenna.Encore.COM> bzs@Encore.COM (Barry Shein) writes:

[relevant stuff deleted -- I'm making an irrelevant posting here...]

>For that matter why not just combine tar and ar and add a flag to tar
>to include an archive symbol table...

Better make that a flag to cpio.  In System V, release 4, cpio will have
a new flag, -Htar, that makes it read and write tar-format archives...
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peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) (12/27/88)

In article <953@riddle.UUCP>, domo@riddle.UUCP (Dominic Dunlop) writes:
> Better make that a flag to cpio.  In System V, release 4, cpio will have
> a new flag, -Htar, that makes it read and write tar-format archives...

Shriek!!!!!!

I hope that's a joke. Please, sir, let it be a joke.
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