[tech] tar vs cpio vs ...

[David Luyer]

Ah, now you reminded me why 'cpio' breaks (without print0/-o0 it doesn't
handle newlines in filenames).  That was why I sometimes used pax with
cpio format to archive and then cpio to extract.

David.
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