Replace /rescue/vi with mined(1) from DragonFlyBSD
Peter Jeremy
PeterJeremy at optushome.com.au
Sun Jun 19 19:39:44 GMT 2005
On Sun, 2005-Jun-19 12:00:12 -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
>Peter Jeremy wrote:
>>According to tar(1) and libarchive-formats(3), yes it read anything that
>>pax can. (It can't write cpio but I don't see that as a requirement in
>>/rescue).
>
>Yes, it can write cpio. (Posix octet-oriented cpio format, also called
>'odc cpio' Other variants are easy to add if there's demand.)
libarchive-formats(3) states:
Tar Formats
The libarchive(3) library can read most tar archives. However, it only
writes POSIX-standard ``ustar'' and ``pax interchange'' formats.
But tar(1) does state it can write cpio. I skipped from tar(1) to
libarchive-formats(3) too quickly and missed that, sorry.
I think that just strengthens my argument that having pax in /rescue
is redundant, superfluous and unnecessary :-).
--
Peter Jeremy
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