On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 12:58 -0500, Mike Cronenworth wrote: > Why is the Red Hat cpio package heavily modified from the GNU cpio > package? To be fair, it's not heavily modified. The only change is the -c option. This has been changed since Tue Jun 30 1998. If you wish guarantee the old portable (ASCII) archive format, use -H odc instead. ~spot