gnucpio

clone of UNIX cpio with extra features

Contributed by

Bob Gibson

Obtained from

GNU Archives on prep.mit.edu

Restrictions

GNUCopyleft

Description

Gnucpio is a reimplemention of UNIX cpio by the Free Software Foundation. It is backwards compatible with the standard cpio. It also supports a number of additional archive formats, provides a crc checksum mode, and supports filesystems with more than 64K inodes.

Productivity

The above extra features are not available in SCO cpio, and are sometimes indispensable. In particular, SCO cpio can't deal with the SVR4 cpio format which is used in many distribution tapes shipped by USL and Novell.

Safety

Used it. Reports more warnings than SCO cpio.

Work Planned

This version is not compiled with support for remote tape drives; current versions of the SCO UNIX tape drivers do not include many of the required features. If and when SCO ships a conformant rmt program, it would be useful to enable these features.

Documentation

Manual page

Verification

Use it like standard cpio.