This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of GNU cpio (including mt). This package was put together by Ian Murdock , from sources obtained from: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu This package has been modified by Brian Mays . Modifications of cpio package for Debian GNU/Linux Copyright (C) 1996-2001 Brian Mays and are released under the GPL (on Debian systems see `/usr/doc/copyright/GPL'). Changes: * added Debian GNU/Linux package maintenance system files * split cpio and mt into two separate Debian binary packages * fixed 'mt -V' bug * modified cpio to print a list of filenames terminated by a null character when the -t and -0 flags are used * eliminated a spurious error message printed when the -a flag is used on a read-only filesystem * fixed a remote ioctl bug in mt that caused spurious error messages when commands were sent to a remote tape device * added SCSI support to mt * fixed 'cpio --sparse' bug * added an rmt man page (from BSD). * fixed a bug that could cause an endless loop * fixed a bug that can occur when restoring a whole filesystem * fixed problem causing corruption of old style ascii cpio archives * fixed a bug that prevents cpio from being compiled with glibc 2.1 * added an rsh-command option to cpio and mt * made ssh the default remote command (instead of rsh) * fixed bug causing cpio to segfault when the tar format is used * fixed bugs causing cpio to use the wrong minor device numbers * fixed bug in rmt causing problems on systems (such as the Hurd) where sys_errlist is not available * modified cpio so that the -v and -V flags work with --only-verify-crc * modified cpio so that creating directories with the -d option honors the umask * fixed typos in find_inode_file function causing it to occasionally miss inodes GNU cpio is Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 dated June, 1991. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/doc/copyright/GPL'.