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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!uunet!sybus.sybus.com!myrddin!tct!chip From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Sorry, everyone, but I'm cpio clueless... Message-ID: <2A68F47F.79BA@tct.com> Date: 19 Jul 92 04:50:07 GMT References: <1992Jul17.160256.4518@news.iastate.edu> <1992Jul17.180345.1296@nrao.edu> <1992Jul18.044401.2343@uvm.edu> Organization: TC Telemanagement, Clearwater, FL Lines: 10 According to wollman@sadye (Garrett Wollman): > - The only cpio program that tries to make up for byte-sex problems >is GNU cpio. Not so. The afio program -- and oldie but a goodie -- does so, too. And it knows how to skip bad data and resync at the next file. -- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip@tct.com>, <73717.366@compuserve.com> "Do Rush place weird subliminal backmasked messages in their songs to compel unwilling geeks to commit evil .sig atrocities?" -- Dean Engelhardt