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Re: GNU emacs 21.2-4 packages available
- From: Joe Buehler <jbuehler at hekimian dot com>
- To: Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at netscape dot net>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 10:43:59 -0400
- Subject: Re: GNU emacs 21.2-4 packages available
- Organization: Spirent Communications
- References: <3D5A6653.4030308@hekimian.com> <3D5A695C.40609@netscape.net>
- Reply-to: joseph dot buehler at spirentcom dot com
Nicholas Wourms wrote:
I can't believe there are people who still use cpio! Is this a emacs
build thing or do you honestly prefer to use cpio?
I honestly prefer GNU cpio.
- Unlike tar, cpio has always been able to take a list of files on stdin.
- GNU cpio can unpack just about anything -- feed it into stdin
and it figures it out.
- GNU cpio can create just about any format (-H option).
There is a note in GNU tar that it doesn't do POSIX format, so GNU cpio
and GNU tar may be out of sync on this, thus the repackaging.
Joe Buehler