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- From: mark@jhereg.Minnetech.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn)
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- In article <430@longway.TIC.COM> dsamperi@Citicorp.COM (Dominick Samperi) writes:
- >Can somebody tell me where one can find the latest CPIO/TAR file
- >archive standards documented? Will these standards actually be used
- >for the "Open Systems" of the future, as defined by OSF, AT&T, POSIX,
- >etc.?
-
- The arhive format which was standardized by POSIX is in the IEEE Posix
- 1003.1 standard in Chapter 10.
-
- As far as implementations supporting the standard, POSIX definitely will
- since it is a part of the standard. OSF, UI, etc. will support it if they
- wish to be POSIX compliant. If they don't wish to be POSIX compliant, they
- are not bound (except by their customers) to support any standard at all.
-
- I would be very suprised any Unix-like operating system which is released
- in the next few years does not support the Posix standard.
-
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- Mark H. Colburn mark@Minnetech.MN.ORG
- Open Systems Architects, Inc.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 17, Number 67
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