Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mdisea!mitchell From: mitchell@MDI.COM (Bill Mitchell) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Tar Keywords: tar Message-ID: <1991Apr8.213707.7070@MDI.COM> Date: 8 Apr 91 21:37:07 GMT References: <3910@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> Sender: news@MDI.COM Organization: Motorola, Mobile Data Division - Seattle, WA Lines: 11 In article klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl (Klamer Schutte) writes: > >For POSIX, we need pax. Do we want a tar as well? As long as the outside world still uses tar, and there is a possibility that we'll want to be able to un-tar tarfiles generated in the outside world or send tarfiles to someone in the outside world who lacks pax we'll still need tar. Right? -- mitchell@mdi.com (Bill Mitchell)