Need assistance with afio problem.

[Michael E. Haws]

In article <1991May28.172728.26275 at gjetor.geac.COM>, adeboer at gjetor.geac.COM (Anthony DeBoer) writes:
> The difference is in what you mean by "compress during backup".  The easy way
> to do it is "find | cpio | compress | dd", to compress the whole backup in one
> pass.  An error in the middle of the tape could screw up the decompression for
> the whole remainder of the tape.

The version of afio that I am using came from the Ohio State archives and the 
compression extension was added by Jeff Buhrt.  It does not compress the
the cpio archive as a whole but compresses each file individually before it
puts it in the archive.
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