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Date: Fri,  4 Feb 2005 09:49:12 -0700
From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Derek Fawcus wrote:

> Linux distributions...  At heart the archive inside a .rpm
> file is in a cpio varient,  there is even a rpm2cpio filter.

linux initrd are now cpio archives.

ron