Afio is a better way of dealing with cpio-format archives. It is generally faster than cpio, provides more diverse magnetic tape options and deals somewhat gracefully with input data corruption. Afio is quite portable. It is now running under 4.2BSD, System V and even one or two UNIX-like operating systems. Please see the beginning of afio.c for a brief description of the compile-time configuration options. Discussion of features (including those unintended ones commonly referred to as "bugs") may be sent to ..!{ihnp4, sun}!laidbak!mdb. Mark Brukhartz Lachman Associates, Inc. ..!{ihnp4, sun}!laidbak!mdb