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From: jsq@im4u.UUCP (John Quarterman)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: tar format
Message-ID: <714@im4u.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 5-Jan-86 11:35:24 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan  5 11:35:24 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 6-Jan-86 03:49:06 EST
References: <358@ukecc.UUCP> <165@hadron.UUCP>
Reply-To: jsq@im4u.UUCP (John Quarterman)
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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Keywords: P1003, tar

In article <165@hadron.UUCP> jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) writes:
>I'm not sure whether SVID addresses it (I'm pretty sure it doesn't).
>However, the IEEE OS standard has a tape information interchange
>standard that looks remarkably, I am told, like tar.	;-)

The current IEEE P1003 draft standard (Draft 6) includes a data interchange
format which is modeled after tar.  It has some extensions to the V7 one,
including a format for directory entries on the tape which is the same
as the one 4BSD uses:  like plain files, but with a slash on the end of
the filename.
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