copying wordlists [was: upgrade 0.93.1]

[Dave Lovelace]

David Relson wrote, in part:
> ... .  For one, there's the new idea of a
> "database environment" with attendant status files, e.g. __db.*,
> lockfile-*, etc and log files.  Simply copying wordlist.db from one
> place to another is not a good idea.  Scripts bf_copy and bf_compact are
> available on sourceforge.  
> 

Something occurs to me, given what was said a while back about needing to
use dd instead of cp to copy database stuff now:  What will happen if
files are restored from a (tar-style) tape backup?  Will they have
problems?

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