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-
-Major changes in version 2.4:
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-* new texinfo documentation
-* --sparse option to write sparse files
-* --only-verify-crc option to verify a CRC format archive
-* --no-absolute-paths option to ignore absolute paths
-* --quiet option to supress printing number of blocks copied
-* handle disk input errors more gracefully
-
-Major changes in version 2.3:
-
-* in newc and crc format archives, only store 1 copy of multiply linked files
-* handle multiply linked devices properly
-* handle multiply linked files with cpio -pl even when the source and 
-  destination are on different file systems
-* support HPUX Context Dependent Files
-* read and write HPUX cpio archives
-* read System V.4 POSIX tar archives and HPUX POSIX tar archives
-* use rmdir, instead of unlink, to delete existing directories
-
-Major changes in version 2.2:
-
-* handle link counts correctly when reading binary cpio archives
-* configure checks for some libraries that SVR4 needs
-
-Major changes in version 2.1:
-
-* cpio can access remote non-device files as well as remote devices
-* fix bugs in the MS-DOS port
-* add --swap equivalent to -b option
-
-Version 2.0 adds the following features:
-
-Support for the SVR4 cpio formats, which can store inodes >65535, and
-for traditional and POSIX tar archives.  Also adds these options:
-
--A --append		append to instead of replacing the archive
--V --dot		print a dot for each file processed
--H --format		select archive format
--C --io-size		select I/O block size in bytes
--M --message		print a message at end of media volumes
---no-preserve-owner	don't change files' owners when extracting
--R --owner		set files' owners when extracting
--E --pattern-file	list of shell filename patterns to process
--s --swap-bytes		handle byte-order differences when extracting files
--S --swap-halfwords	ditto
--b			like -sS
--I			input archive filename
--k			recognize corrupted archives (we alawys do it, though)
--O			output archive filename
-
-Some options of previous versions have been renamed in 2.0:
-
---binary was replaced by --format=bin
---portability was replaced by --format=odc
-
-Some options have changed meaning in 2.0, for SVR4 compatibility:
-
--O used to select the binary archive format, now selects the output file
--V used to print the version number, now prints a dot for each file
-
-Version 2.0 also fixes several bugs in the handling of files with
-multiple links and of multi-volume archives on floppy disks.