I think I've got everything right in here, but there are definitely areas that need filling out. One particular area is what the CIPO utility homepage mentions: Supporting multiple formats (binary, old ASCII, new ASCII, crc, HPUX binary, HPUX old ASCII, old tar, and POSIX.1 tar). I don't quite understand that. I only heard of this format recently while studying about RPM in a red hat book, and had difficulty finding more information about CPIO anywhere. Now at least Wikipedia has a basic article describing what I managed to decipher about it. Hopefully someone else can add to it. -- techtoucian
What? no mention of pax and the tar vs CPIO dispute?
Merging edit
Since the name of the program is cpio, this article should be merged into Cpio, not the other way around. 83.71.47.204 22:40, 23 January 2006 (UTC)