[ On Sunday, January 26, 2003 at 20:44:11 (-0700), Rick Kelly wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Removing GNU tar and GNU cpio from src?
>
> der Mouse said:
> 
> >Yes, but then, you can equally well use tar, or pax, or cpio, or any of
> >tons of other programs.
> 
> And dump is a non-portable backup tool.

Dump is a backup program -- it's not intended for interchange of archives.

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