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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!pacbell.com!amdahl!hip-hop!dfox From: dfox@hip-hop.suvl.ca.us (David Fox) Subject: Re: any chance of... References: <1993Mar30.041706.28158@coe.montana.edu> <1pauv5INN771@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> <1993Mar31.031615.5064@coe.montana.edu> Organization: Hip-Hop BBS, Sunnyvale California Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1993 22:53:41 GMT Message-ID: <C4tu9H.3G5@hip-hop.suvl.ca.us> Lines: 20 nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) wrote: > >Me, the main reason I like tar is because I know tar. I don't know cpio. FWIW, I once asked Lynne why cpio, and not something like ZIP (since it was on MSDOS readable diskettes). At the time, I really hadn't used a Unix system before. Her response was "what, you don't know about cpio ???!?" (kinda shocked). :) >osynw@terra.oscs.montana.edu | Still trying to find a good reason for >nate@cs.montana.edu | these 'computer' things. Personally, >work #: (406) 994-4836 | I don't think they'll catch on - >home #: (406) 586-0579 | Don Hammerstrom -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- David E. Fox email: hip-hop!dfox@amdahl.com 5479 Castle Manor Drive San Jose, CA 95129 Thanks for letting me change the magnetic