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Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 19:25:30 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Subject: ANNOUNCE: GNU cpio 2.4.2 uploaded
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This is to announce that the DJGPP port of GNU cpio version 2.4.2 was
uploaded to SimTel.NET and should be available from your nearest mirror:

  ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/cpio242b.zip
  ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/cpio242s.zip

`cpio' is a program that is used to copy directory trees while preserving 
their structure and file attributes.  It can copy files into an archive, 
extract them out of an archive, or copy them recursively without actually 
creating an archive.  It is somewhat similar to `tar', but differs in 
that it features the copy-pass mode (whereby files are copied without 
creating an intermediate archive) and in that it works like a filter 
(e.g., reads file names from stdin and writes the archive to stdout).  It 
does support the `tar' format, as well as several varieties of the cpio's 
own format.  It can also be used for backup.

Some packages (e.g., Texk) use `cpio' to install subtrees of the source 
distribution, so if you need to be able to build arbitrary GNU packages, 
you should probably install `cpio'.

This DJGPP port has several significant improvements.  Please read the 
file README.djgpp for details.