Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> writes:

quoted text
> reveals that cpio is not mentioned anywhere in the documentation,
> nor in the requirements section of the INSTALL file.

Thanks.

We use many other tools that are typically found in bog-standard
UNIX environments, like sed, echo, cat, sort, etc. and we do not
list them in the INSTALL file (nor we would want to).  cpio used
to be in the "bog standard" category but perhaps Linux distros
do not install it by default, so it is worth listing it there.

Are there other commands we rely on that may not be universally
installed?  I myself consider "cut" to be in the category, but
other than that I do not think of anything offhand.

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