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GNU cpio copies files into or out of a cpio or tar archive. The
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archive can be another file on the disk, a magnetic tape, or a pipe.
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GNU cpio supports the following archive formats: binary, old ASCII,
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new ASCII, crc, HPUX binary, HPUX old ASCII, old tar, and POSIX.1
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tar. The tar format is provided for compatibility with the tar
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program. By default, cpio creates binary format archives, for
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compatibility with older cpio programs. When extracting from
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archives, cpio automatically recognizes which kind of archive it
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is reading and can read archives created on machines with a different
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byte-order.
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Note that this port will install these utilities with a 'g' prefix,
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e.g. gcpio, but the texinfo documentation will refer to them without
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the 'g' prefix.
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