This is the GNU cpio package

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* Introduction

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GNU cpio copies files between archives and directories.  It supports

the following archive formats: old binary cpio, old portable cpio, SVR4

cpio with and without checksum, HP cpio, and various tar formats.

This file contains brief information about configuring and compiling

GNU cpio.  It is *not* intended as a replacement for the documentation,

and is provided as a brief reference only.

The complete documentation for GNU cpio is available in the subdirectory

doc.  To read it without installing the package run `info -f doc/cpio.info',

or `man ./doc/cpio.1'.

The documentation in various formats is also available online at

<http://www.gnu.org/software/cpio/manual/>.

* Building

A usual three-stage procedure applies:

 ./configure

 make

 make install

See the file INSTALL for generic options to ./configure.

* Bug reporting.

Please send bug reports and suggestions to <bug-cpio@gnu.org>.

* Copyright information

Copyright (C) 2003-2007, 2009-2010, 2014-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

   Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies

   of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the

   copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,

   thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.

   Permission is granted to distribute modified versions

   of this document, or of portions of it,

   under the above conditions, provided also that they

   carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.

Local variables:

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eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp)

time-stamp-start: "changes. "

time-stamp-format: "%:y-%02m-%02d"

time-stamp-end: "\n"

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