Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: <snip> > You may have misunderstood what I meant. I didn't mean "people don't use > tar or cpio when backing up to tape". ok. > I meant "people mostly use tar and cpio for tasks other than backing up to > tape". This is self-evident given the huge number of tarballs (and some > cpio sets) available for download, which have nothing to do with tape > backup. i believe that this is because tar became a 'bad habit' and did not change to rpm when it came out because of rpm being more difficult to master. when i want to 'package' files, i use cpio. too many things can happen with tar files. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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