Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tar for the base revision

[Tom Lord]

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    > >     * archival programs that stick to a credible standard
    > > 
    > >     * archival programs that are (essentially) universally ported
    > >       or implemented
    > > 
    > >     * archival programs without stupid, arbitrary limits

    > How is cpio by these measures?  

I forget.  I explicitly rejected it for some reason.  And I don't
really have enough desk-space here to maintain a proper labnotes
workbook --- so I forget exactly why I rejected it.   But I do
remember explicitly considering it.

Geeze, this sucks.


-t