Subject: afio version 2.3.6 (archiver & backup program)
From: [email-masked] (Koen Holtman)
Date: 9 Jan 1994 15:19:48 +0200
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

I've uploaded afio version 2.3.6 to the ftp sites

  nic.funet.fi    : /pub/OS/Linux/util/backup/afio-2.3.6.tgz
  sunsite.unc.edu : /pub/Linux/system/Backup/afio-2.3.6.tgz
  ftp.win.tue.nl  : /pub/linux/tbackup/afio-2.3.6.tgz

At this moment afio-2.3.6.tgz may still be in the incoming directories on
the first two sites.

Afio is an archiver/backup program that produces cpio-format archives.

Like tar, afio can make compressed archives.  However, the compressed
archives produced by afio are much safer than tar -z archives.
If a tar -z archive has a read error, tar is unable to extact the
files beyond this error.  The compressed archive format used by afio
allows it to recover from read errors and go on unpacking the next
file.

Changes wrt the latest (Linux) version of afio, 2.3-dpg-4:

- Afio can now selectively restore files maching one or more shell
  patterns. It basically has the same selective restore capabilities
  as tar and cpio.

- Floppy disk verify now works.

- Users of relatively slow machines or fast backup devices can speed up
  the compression process (at the expense of larger archives) by using
  the new -G and -T options.

- Knows about the .gz extension for compressed files, extensions can also
  be specified by the user.

- No longer creates (potentially huge) temporary files, so that
  a backup script calling afio can safely use /tmp.

LSM entry:

Begin2
Title        = AFIO
Version      = 2.3.6 (for Linux)
Desc1        = Archiver & backup program w/ builtin compression
Desc2        = Afio is a better way of dealing with cpio-format archives.
Desc3        = Supports multi-volume archives during interactive operation.
Desc4        = Afio compressed archives are generally safer than
Desc5        = tar -z archives.
Author       = Dave Gymer 
AuthorEmail  = [email-masked]
Maintainer   = Koen Holtman
MaintEmail   = [email-masked]
Site1        = nic.funet.fi
Path1        = /pub/OS/Linux/util/backup/
File1        = afio-2.3.6.tgz
Site2        = sunsite.unc.edu
Path2        = /pub/Linux/system/Backup
File2        = afio-2.3.6.tgz
Site3        = ftp.win.tue.nl
Path3        = /pub/linux/tbackup
File3        = afio-2.3.6.tgz
Required1    = gcc, gzip
CopyPolicy1  = Freeware. (c) 1985 Lachman Associates, Inc.
Keywords     = backup archive compression gzip afio cpio
Comment1     = 2.3.6 is a Linux specific version.
Comment2     = Original author is Mark Brukhartz ( ..!{ihnp4,sun}!laidbak!mdb )
Comment3     = Current generic maintainer Jeff Buhrt,uunet!sawmill!prslnk!buhrt
End

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