Asri-unix.436 net.unix-wizards utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!houxi!ihnss!ucbvax!menlo70!sri-unix!CSVAX.kiessig@Berkeley Tue Jan 5 22:44:30 1982 UNIX System III and 'cpio' For those who are converting to System III, be warned: the tapes (two of them) come from Western in cpio format. This is terribly inconvenient for those of us with VAXen or other 32V or V7 systems. I ended up writing a cpio to tar conversion program. This seems like a totally uneeded task.... Rick ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.