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- From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
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- I think one issue that needs to be clarified is: Are we trying to standardize
- the user interface of the tar/cpio/other interchange standard, or the archive
- format, or both? For example, although standard tar does not accept filenames
- from standard input, that is irrelevant to the actual suitablity of its
- archive format. The POSIX standard could easily use the tar archive format
- with the cpio command structure, or vice versa.
-
- [ POSIX is a programming interface standard. It has nothing to do with
- the command interface. As such, the data interchange format is appropriate
- for POSIX to standarize, but the user interface of the command that implements
- it is not. While P1003.2 (Shell and Tools) might be interested in the
- user interface, P1003.1 (POSIX) is not. -mod ]
-
- The obvious choice seems to be the tar archive format (more widely used and
- available) with cpio's user interface.
-
- [ The user interface is irrelevant to P1003.1 and POSIX. The immediate
- issue (that must be resolved before balloting on the POSIX Full Use Standard)
- is what the data interchange format should be. Input before the next
- P1003.1 Working Group meeting (20-24 June 1987 in Seattle) would be
- most helpful. -mod ]
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- Rahul Dhesi UUCP: {ihnp4,seismo}!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi
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- Volume-Number: Volume 11, Number 40
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