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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu
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Subject: Re: Standards Update, IEEE 1003.1: System services interface
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Date: 3 Jul 90 22:37:23 GMT
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From:  henry@zoo.toronto.edu

>From:  peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva)
>I disagree. There are just too many organisations using ANSI format magtapes.
>Tar and CPIO should both be retained, but the ability to read and write
>standard ANSI magtapes... if the hardware is available... should be part...

Uh, Peter, go back and look at what Doug wrote.  He never said anything,
either positive or negative, about the ability to use ANSI magtapes.  The
point is that the ANSI magtape format assumes a storage medium which has
notions like block boundaries and tape marks, and it is grossly mismatched
to the requirement for a Unix archiving format.

>...So for that matter should such things
>as different receive and transmit baud rates (ever hear of V.23 modems?),
>but that's another point.

Peter, would it be too much to ask whether you have *read* the standards
you are criticizing?  1003.1 supports split baud rates.

                                         Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
                                          henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry

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