Re: cpio not gnu compliant

["Tom \"spot\" Callaway" <tcallawa redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 12:58 -0500, Mike Cronenworth wrote:
> Why is the Red Hat cpio package heavily modified from the GNU cpio
> package?

To be fair, it's not heavily modified. The only change is the -c option.
This has been changed since Tue Jun 30 1998.

If you wish guarantee the old portable (ASCII) archive format, use -H
odc instead.

~spot