cvs commit: src/usr.bin/cpio Makefile bsdcpio.1 cmdline.c config_freebsd.h cpio.c cpio.h cpio_platform.h err.c matching.c matching.h pathmatch.c pathmatch.h src/usr.bin/cpio/test Makefile main.c test.h test_0.c test_basic.c test_format_newc.c ...

[Tony Finch]

On Mon, 26 May 2008, Colin Percival wrote:
>
> What I really meant was "three different general-purpose
> archiving/dearchiving tools in the base system".  I wasn't counting ar
> since I've never seen it used for anything except libraries,

The .deb format is an ar file containing two .tar.gz files (for data and
metadata).

Tony.
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