On Sun, 28 May 2000, Omer Mussaev wrote:
> > Any reason why not to use cp -a that I'm not aware of?
>
> first: using tar is POSIX compliant, thus you can use tar method on
> any POSIX(applications) compliant machine.
> second: this is the Unix way.
Let me add my own reason for why I like the tar|tar trick better: it's
standard. No, not in UNIX: in programmer think. You know what the standard
way is to copy objects in Java? Why, serialize/deserialize. You know what
the standard way is to copy objects in Python? Why, pickle/unpickle.
The *correct* way to copy in a pointer-isomorphic way, is by a
serialize/deserialize mechanism. But that's *exactly* the meaning of tar.
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