This is the Debian GNU/Linux prepackaged version of GNU cpio
(including mt).

This package was put together by Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.org>,
from sources obtained from:
 prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu

This package has been modified by Brian Mays <brian@debian.org>.
Modifications of cpio package for Debian GNU/Linux Copyright (C)
1996-2002 Brian Mays and are released under the GPL (on Debian systems
see "/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL").

Changes:
 * added Debian GNU/Linux package maintenance system files
 * split cpio and mt into two separate Debian binary packages
 * fixed "mt -V" bug
 * modified cpio to print a list of filenames terminated by a null
   character when the -t and -0 flags are used
 * eliminated a spurious error message printed when the -a flag is
   used on a read-only filesystem
 * fixed a remote ioctl bug in mt that caused spurious error messages
   when commands were sent to a remote tape device
 * added SCSI support to mt
 * fixed "cpio --sparse" bug
 * added an rmt man page (from BSD).
 * fixed a bug that could cause an endless loop
 * fixed a bug that can occur when restoring a whole filesystem
 * fixed problem causing corruption of old style ascii cpio archives
 * fixed a bug that prevents cpio from being compiled with glibc 2.1
 * added an rsh-command option to cpio and mt
 * made ssh the default remote command (instead of rsh)
 * fixed bug causing cpio to segfault when the tar format is used
 * fixed bugs causing cpio to use the wrong minor device numbers
 * fixed bug in rmt causing problems on systems (such as the Hurd)
   where sys_errlist is not available
 * modified cpio so that the -v and -V flags work with
   --only-verify-crc
 * modified cpio so that creating directories with the -d option honors
   the umask
 * fixed typos in find_inode_file function causing it to occasionally
   miss inodes

GNU cpio is Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   the Free Software Foundation; version 2 dated June, 1991.

   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
   GNU General Public License for more details.

On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General
Public License can be found in "/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL".