[mdlug] "Linux Format" March issue available for download

[Garry Stahl]

Raymond McLaughlin wrote:
> Paul wrote:
>   
>> Michael Corral <micorral at comcast.net>, on Wed Mar 04, 2009 [01:29:29 AM] said:
>>     
>>> 2009-03-03, Monsieur Michael Rudas a ecrit:
>>>       
>>>> The magazine is in PDF format and the DVD is available as an ISO; both
>>>> are torrents.
>>>>
>>>> <http://www.tuxradar.com/content/linux-format-free-download-24-hours-only>
>>>>         
>>> Heh, they put "Linux Format" in a zip file (linux_format_116.zip)!
>>> Zip doesn't strike me as the most Linux-y of archive formats. :)
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>       
>> 	Hi;
>>
>> 	No doubt! No one would want to associate Linux with the likes
>> of Java JAR files, python .egg files, silverlight and that ilk. And
>> then there are ODF files, google earth, and mozilla firefox add-ons...
>> WAIT!@#
>>
>> Paul
>> set at pobox.com
>>
>> ps. its all about CPIO...
>>     
>
> Oh yes, the old Convoluted, Perverse, Insane, Obtuse archive format. I
> have been learning a bit about that.
>   "In copy-out mode, cpio copies files into an archive."
>   "In copy-in mode, cpio copies files out of an archive"
> Makes sense to me.
>   

Sounds a bit like DMS.  Useful, but back ass-ward in the command line
syntax. 

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