home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- From: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
-
- Let's get the 1003.1 standard adopted and worry about perfection later.
-
- In the real world one HAS to have a working "tar" if one exchanges files
- with many random UNIX sites, even if "cpio" might be better technically.
-
- Any proposal for CPIO format that is system-dependent ("old cpio")
- rather than portable ("new cpio") should be rejected out of hand.
-
- 1003.2 should probably include the "cpio" utility, which has many uses
- besides tape archives. 1003.1 should stick to "tar" for tape archives,
- or remove that section altogether.
-
- I would prefer to remove tape archive format altogether from what is
- supposed to be a program/system interface specification (1003.1). There
- simply isn't a single universal interchange medium anyway (not every
- system has 1/2" magtape, for example).
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 11, Number 12
-
-