cpio -ivt

[Richard Foulk]

>>option of cpio is simply too slow.  One could also write a double-buffering
>>routine to be piped, but that's a sophistication AFTER one is assured a tape
>>can be read.
>
>It doesn't take too much sophistication to put a 'dd bs=32k |' in front
>of your cpio/tar/pax command.  This gives you double buffering without
>having to write any code.

Or use "ddd" which is much better.  It's available from the comp.sources.unix
archives in volume 15.


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Richard Foulk		richard at pegasus.com