Re: Replace /rescue/vi with mined(1) from DragonFlyBSD

Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-Jun-18 20:39:04 -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
>>On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 04:16:04PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>>
>>>If you're looking for ways to save space in /rescue, there are other
>>>low-hanging fruit before you start moving to yet another editor:
>>
>>>- pax (when the new libarchive tar is available)
>>
>>Pax does more than just tar archives.  Can libarchive'ed tar handle cpio
>>archives?
> 
> According to tar(1) and libarchive-formats(3), yes it read anything that
> pax can.  (It can't write cpio but I don't see that as a requirement in
> /rescue).

Yes, it can write cpio.  (Posix octet-oriented cpio format, also called 
'odc cpio'  Other variants are easy to add if there's demand.)

Is that not in the manpages?  I'll add it.

Tim