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   Grant Taylor to philo   
   Re: cpio help needed   
   08 Jan 20 12:52:08   
   
   From: gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net   
      
   On 1/8/20 7:36 AM, philo wrote:   
   > Basically what I have to do them is use TAR rather than gzip   
      
   tar and gzip do two completely different things.   
      
   tar creates (and reads) an archive of multiple files.   
      
   gzip compresses things.   
      
   cpio is another archiver like tar.   
      
      
      
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