What is the CPIO format?

1. cpio Unix CPIO Archive
2. CPIO is a compressor that uses ditto BSD utility to compress or extract typically in Unix CPIO. Also it uses the Java Common Compress API to extract. Using the Gzip compressor it creates backup files. It is widely used in several Linux OS.

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1. Convert cpio to another format!
2. Convert other formats to cpio!