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- From: Dave Sill <dsill@relay-nswc.navy.mil>
-
- >From: John S. Quarterman <jsq@usenix.org>
- >The facts are adequately related in the minutes of the various
- >standards committee meetings, and these reports are not intended to
- >duplicate those documents, which anyone can subscribe to directly from
- >IEEE and the other standards bodies.
-
- I must confess that I've assumed all along that the purpose of the
- Updates was to summarize the various minutes so Usenix members and
- readers of this group wouldn't have to subscribe to them directly, as
- well as including any other relevant standards-related information.
-
- >The basic goal of the reports is to provide information to
- >the USENIX membership and to the general public about standards and the
- >standards process, so that more of those who should be involved will
- >become involved.
-
- I totally agree that this is the goal.
-
- >[...] This kind of contextual information involves opinions, either
- >Shane's or someone else's. The reports are supposed to be
- >editorials, not just journalism.
-
- Yes, opinions are important; but not just Shane's. What I want to
- read about is the opinions of the movers and shakers in
- standardization and the prevailing opinions of the user community.
- I don't think we can expect Shane's opinions to be an accurate
- representation of such a large and diverse group. Also, I disagree
- that reporting on controversial subjects and opinions either implies
- or requires editorialization. These Updates are not just stating
- common or representative opinions, they are taking sides and promoting
- the opinion of one individual.
-
- Let me reiterate a point I made at the opening of my previous posting.
- I respect Shane McCarron and value his opinions. I just wish he'd
- express them under separate cover. Let comp.std.unix/std-unix be the
- forum for personal opinion and the Standards Updates be an objective
- report of the developments and issues.
-
- =========
- The opinions expressed above are mine.
-
- "Without the wind, the grass does not move.
- Without software, hardware is useless."
-
- -- The Tao of Programming
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 15, Number 56
-
- olume-Number: Volume 15, Number 56
-
-
- Path: longway!std-unix
- From: mark@jhereg.jhereg.mn.org (Mark H. Colburn)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.unix
- Subject: PAX - Portable Archive Interchange
- Message-ID: <290@longway.TIC.COM>
- Date: 6 Jan 89 05:20:12 GMT
- Sender: std-unix@longway.TIC.COM
- Reply-To: Mark H. Colburn <mark@jhereg.jhereg.mn.org>
- Lines: 49
- Approved: jsq@longway.tic.com (Moderator, John S. Quarterman)
-
- From: Mark H. Colburn <mark@jhereg.jhereg.mn.org>
-
- PAX - Portable Archive Interchange
-
- This notice is to announce the availability of version 1.1 of Pax,
- a public domain archiving utility.
-
- Pax is an archiving utility that reads and writes tar and cpio formats,
- both the traditional ones and the extended formats specified in IEEE 1003.1.
- It handles multi-volume archives and automatically determines the format
- of an archive while reading it. Three user interfaces are supported:
- tar, cpio, and pax. The pax interface was designed by IEEE 1003.2 as a
- compromise in the chronic controversy over which of tar or cpio is best.
-
- Pax was written by Mark Colburn. The USENIX Association provided some
- support for this implementation project. As a result, the Pax utility
- is being distributed free of charge and may be redistributed by others
- in either source or binary form.
-
- The source for Pax is being posted to comp.sources.unix on USENET and will
- also be available by anonymous FTP on the Internet from uunet.uu.net,
- moon.honeywell.com and from ucbarpa.berkeley.edu. The source to Pax will
- also be available via anonymous UUCP from jhereg.mn.org, the author's home
- machine, and possibly other sites.
-
- Copyright (c) 1989 Mark H. Colburn.
- All rights reserved.
-
- Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted
- provided that the above copyright notice is duplicated in all such
- forms and that any documentation, advertising materials, and other
- materials related to such distribution and use acknowledge that the
- software was developed by Mark H. Colburn and sponsored by The
- USENIX Association.
-
- THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
- IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
- WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
-
- For more information about Pax, please contact the author:
-
- Mark Colburn
- NAPS International
- 117 Mackubin St., Suite 1
- St. Paul MN 55102
- (612) 224-9108
- mark@jhereg.MN.ORG
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 15, Number 57
-
-