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- From: dg@mach2.b24b.ingr.com (David Garrison)
- Subject: Cpio/Tar
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.194129.21016@b8.b8.ingr.com>
- Sender: usenet@b8.b8.ingr.com (Usenet Account)
- Organization: Intergraph
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:41:29 GMT
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- I have a customer ( a big one ) that is in search of a method of tranfering
- his cpio data on existing tape to a tar tape. I know, I know, I know. He can
- cache the data to disk, then tar it to another tape . Is there another way?
- Does anyone have the source handy that can read the cpio file format from raw
- file and replicate it in tar format on another tape. I know this method would
- also have problems because of the way tar treats hard links and symlinks (Which
- he would have to deal with). How about some fancy piping and redirection of
- file descriptors? Thankx for any replys in advance.
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