--- cpio-2.6/doc/cpio.info.rh	2004-02-27 13:42:01.000000000 +0100
+++ cpio-2.6/doc/cpio.info	2006-07-18 17:10:52.000000000 +0200
@@ -261,7 +261,8 @@
      Set the I/O block size to BLOCK-SIZE * 512 bytes.
 
 `-c'
-     Use the old portable (ASCII) archive format.
+     Identical to "-H newc", use the new (SVR4) portable format.
+     If you wish the old portable (ASCII) archive format, use "-H odc" instead.
 
 `-C IO-SIZE, --io-size=IO-SIZE'
      Set the I/O block size to IO-SIZE bytes.
--- cpio-2.6/src/main.c.rh	2004-11-23 01:42:18.000000000 +0100
+++ cpio-2.6/src/main.c	2006-07-18 17:18:10.000000000 +0200
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
   {"block-size", BLOCK_SIZE_OPTION, N_("BLOCK-SIZE"), 0,
    N_("Set the I/O block size to BLOCK-SIZE * 512 bytes"), 110},
   {NULL, 'c', NULL, 0,
-   N_("Use the old portable (ASCII) archive format"), 0},
+   N_("Identical to \"-H newc\", use the new (SVR4) portable format.If you wish the old portable (ASCII) archive format, use \"-H odc\" instead."), 0},
   {"dot", 'V', NULL, 0, 
    N_("Print a \".\" for each file processed"), 110},
   {"io-size", 'C', N_("NUMBER"), 0,
@@ -302,6 +302,7 @@
     case 'c':		/* Use the old portable ASCII format.  */
       if (archive_format != arf_unknown)
 	USAGE_ERROR ((0, 0, _("Archive format multiply defined")));
+#define SVR4_COMPAT
 #ifdef SVR4_COMPAT
       archive_format = arf_newascii; /* -H newc.  */
 #else