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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.unix
- Subject: Re: Your chance to contribute to new POSIX archive format
- Date: 29 Jul 1992 15:15:09 -0700
- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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- Submitted-by: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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- >Submitted-by: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
- >[822 as archive format]... Other data types can be identified
- >to the extent possible and the type of encoding/encryption/compression
- >can be noted per-item...
- >One thing that is needed here is to be able to generate multi-part
- >archives, possibly spliting files across media...
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- One thing that disturbs me about this suggestion is that the participants
- don't seem to be aware of RFC 1341, which extends RFC 822 in a number of
- ways that are relevant to this discussion. RFC 1342 is also noteworthy.
- --
- There is nothing wrong with making | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- mistakes, but... make *new* ones. -D.Sim| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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- Volume-Number: Volume 28, Number 66
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