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From: lm@snafu.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Afio faster than Cpio???
Message-ID: <79637@sun.uucp>
Date: 1 Dec 88 07:46:35 GMT
References: <360@hrc.UUCP>
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In article <360@hrc.UUCP> dan@hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel VP) writes:
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>Is it true that afio is faster than cpio? When I run it on a Convergent
>S/640 (25MHZ 68020), on 5.33 megs, afio takes 45 to 50 seconds longer
>than cpio. Any suggestions as to what I need to do to get the speed up?

Try afio -c 1000 [the rest].  Make sure you have 5megs available.  Or
you could ask Mark, he wrote it after all.  He's at laidbak!mdb.

Larry McVoy      (lm%snafu@sun.com)