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From: std-unix@ut-sally.UUCP (Moderator, John Quarterman)
Newsgroups: comp.std.unix
Subject: tar or cpio?
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Date: Sat, 9-May-87 15:11:53 EDT
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Posted: Sat May  9 15:11:53 1987
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Section 10 of the POSIX Trial Use Standard (and of the current draft)
describes a data interchange format based on the tar program.  The P1003.1
Working Group has recently received two related proposals regarding that
section:  one to add cpio format (including old-style, non c option format);
the other to replace the tar format with cpio format.  It was also proposed
in the latest Working Group meeting to drop section 10 altogether and let
P1003.2 handle the issue.

As the moderator of this newsgroup, I solicit comments about what should
be done with section 10.

As a Working Group member, I will take such comments into account when
I submit a proposal in a few weeks.  If there is sufficient interest,
I will post an outline of that proposal in the newsgroup (as myself,
rather than as the moderator).  I can also post the already-submitted
proposals.

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