The GNU Cpio is a tool for backing up or removing files to cpio or tar archives, which can be files on another disk. The file formats supported by the GNU cpio include binary, old ASCII, new ASCII, CRC, Hpux binaries, hpux old ASCII, older tar, and posix.1 tar. The tar format is for the compatibility of the TAR program. By default, Cpio can create binary format files that are compatible with older CPIO programs. When cpio extracts a file from an archive, it automatically recognizes which archive it belongs to and can read the different byte order that was created.
The GNU cpio version 2.11 license changes to GPLV3. Directory permission processing was changed. Error checking and diagnostics have been improved. The exit code was modified. Now support the MinGW Foundation. Fixed several errors.
Software Information: http://www.gnu.org/software/cpio/
Download Address:
Http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cpio/cpio-2.11.tar.gz
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cpio/cpio-2.11.tar.bz2
Http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cpio/cpio-2.11.shar.gz