From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <8ff5bc522d87f33eb5b6dc5c159350b4@vitanuova.com> From: C H Forsyth Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 09:31:30 +0000 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] netpbm In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3e76adbc-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >>Enhanced Unix "tar" utilities all seem to be able to do it. i dare say it can. cd /usr/src/contrib/tar; wc -l lib/*.c src/*.c ... far too many files 24449 total and that's an old version. it has got `remote tape access', though. i'd forgotten about that. there's probably a command language interpreter in there somewhere. plan 9's pax is only 9000 lines, and is a little behind the times: cd /usr/src/bin/pax; wc -l *.c ... 13455 total does anyone still use cpio or pax? apparently it's like that OSI stuff that never quite dies, however many stakes have been banged through its heart.