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- Major changes in version 2.3:
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- * in newc and crc format archives, only store 1 copy of multiply linked files
- * handle multiply linked devices properly
- * handle multiply linked files with cpio -pl even when the source and
- destination are on different file systems
- * support HPUX Context Dependent Files
- * read and write HPUX cpio archives
- * read System V.4 POSIX tar archives and HPUX POSIX tar archives
- * use rmdir, instead of unlink, to delete existing directories
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- Major changes in version 2.2:
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- * handle link counts correctly when reading binary cpio archives
- * configure checks for some libraries that SVR4 needs
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- Major changes in version 2.1:
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- * cpio can access remote non-device files as well as remote devices
- * fix bugs in the MS-DOS port
- * add --swap equivalent to -b option
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- Version 2.0 adds the following features:
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- Support for the SVR4 cpio formats, which can store inodes >65535, and
- for traditional and POSIX tar archives. Also adds these options:
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- -A --append append to instead of replacing the archive
- -V --dot print a dot for each file processed
- -H --format select archive format
- -C --io-size select I/O block size in bytes
- -M --message print a message at end of media volumes
- --no-preserve-owner don't change files' owners when extracting
- -R --owner set files' owners when extracting
- -E --pattern-file list of shell filename patterns to process
- -s --swap-bytes handle byte-order differences when extracting files
- -S --swap-halfwords ditto
- -b like -sS
- -I input archive filename
- -k recognize corrupted archives (we alawys do it, though)
- -O output archive filename
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- Some options of previous versions have been renamed in 2.0:
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- --binary was replaced by --format=bin
- --portability was replaced by --format=odc
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- Some options have changed meaning in 2.0, for SVR4 compatibility:
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- -O used to select the binary archive format, now selects the output file
- -V used to print the version number, now prints a dot for each file
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- Version 2.0 also fixes several bugs in the handling of files with
- multiple links and of multi-volume archives on floppy disks.
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