Tim Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > P.S.: I am talking about the cpio program creating "cpio" archives and this 
> > is 
> > what I believe happens in flar.
>
> Not so sure - man flash_archive(4) you can choose the archiver you want
> it to use. In terms of flar being extensible, it doesn't matter - the
> flash archive is in "flash archive" format, and isn't intended for use
> by anything other than the flash archive tools afaik.  :-)

In Solaris 9 there is only the cpio format and both, Sun cpio and Sun pax do 
not support sparse files.

Jörg

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