Subject: Re: Status of cpio and mt

From: Bill Mitchell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 13:00:08 -0700 (PDT)

On Wed, 5 Jun 1996, Brian Mays wrote, in private email:

>I'm uploading a new version of the cpio package.  It now includes GNU
>mt.  I've eliminated the cpio-mt package and set cpio to conflict with
>and replace both cpio-mt and mt-st.

Would the distribution maintainers please retire the mt-st package?
Thanks.

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From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 96 17:53 BST

> Would the distribution maintainers please retire the mt-st package?

I'm not the distribution maintainer, but I've done this.  I've put it
in private/project/obsolete.

Ian.

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From: "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <[email-masked]>
Date: 06 Jun 1996 11:52:04 -0700

>> >and replace both cpio-mt and mt-st.

BTW, I do have a SCSI DAT tape drive with hardware compression and while
I didn't use a regression suite, I put the latest mt from cpio through
its paces and had no problems.

Darren
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