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- From: hedrick@topaz.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
-
- Since tar exists (as far as I know) on all Unix systems, and cpio only
- on ATT ones, tar seems like the best choice for portable use.
- Obviously any real POSIX will have both tar and cpio, but why not
- leave the standard at tar? (Note that I haven't read the POSIX
- standard, so all I know about the question is what you mentioned in
- your note. I'm responding as if the choice is between the existing
- tar or cpio programs. If this is a new facility that will require a
- new program to be written, then I have no comment.)
-
- [ The format in POSIX is upwardly compatible with existing tar programs.
- The format proposed for cpio is that of the current cpio program. -mod ]
-
- By the way, what ever happened about job control? I recall some
- discussion, but not the final resolution. I had hoped that POSIX
- would manage to get a few BSD features into general circulation.
- Clearly from the end user's point of view, job control is the one most
- important thing missing from System V. (Actually networking is more
- important, but it's not clear whether that is the sort of thing POSIX
- should be concerned about.)
-
- [ Job control (the HP proposal) is in the current draft. Networking
- is outside the scope of P1003.1, but there is a /usr/group Technical
- Committee addressing the subject with the intention of eventually
- providing input to an appropriate IEEE Working Group. -mod ]
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- Volume-Number: Volume 11, Number 10
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