Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site daab.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!mcvax!enea!daab!lasse From: lasse@daab.UUCP (Lars Hammarstrand) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: tar fs copy Message-ID: <175@daab.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 09:48:53 EST Article-I.D.: daab.175 Posted: Wed Nov 6 09:48:53 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 07:18:27 EST References: <2892@sun.uucp> <313@codas.UUCP> <169@daab.UUCP> <136@desint.UUCP> Reply-To: lasse@daab.UUCP (Lars Hammarstrand) Organization: Datorisering AB, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 23 > >In article <169@daab.UUCP> lasse@daab.UUCP (Lars Hammarstrand) writes: > > > >Why doesn't anybody write a GOOD AND PORTABLE cptree(1) with some flags > >like this.... (It shall manage to copy special files too) > > > >[list of features follows] > >In article <136@desint.UUCP> geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) writes: >AT&T did, a while ago. It's called cpio. Most of your suggested features >are supported directly; the rest are easy with 'find' and 'comm' pipes. >-- > > Geoff Kuenning > {hplabs,ihnp4}!trwrb!desint!geoff Are you sure that you can find CPIO on every system round the world? When I said "GOOD AND PORTABLE", I meant that everybody should have the oppotunity to use a true utlilty like cptree(1)... Lars Hammarstrand.