Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari!otc!metro!basser!natmlab!ipso!stcns3!dave From: dave@stcns3.stc.oz (Dave Horsfall) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Multi tape formats Message-ID: <977@stcns3.stc.oz> Date: 1 Nov 88 05:04:53 GMT References: <10501@tekecs.TEK.COM> <3558@phri.UUCP> Reply-To: dave@stcns3.stc.oz (Dave Horsfall) Organization: Alcatel-STC Australia, North Sydney, AUSTRALIA Lines: 18 In article <3558@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes: | andrew@frip.gwd.tek.com (Andrew Klossner) writes: | > Or the world of Unix, where we've seen tp, tar, and cpio. | | Not to mention dump, in its various incarnations. Granted, dump is | not really meant for file transfer like tar et al. are, but system software | is often distributed that way. Not to mention VOLCOPY and DD ... Ok, they're not "formats", but a lot of system distributions come that way as well. What's that up to - 5 formats now? And no doubt various proprietary products. Wonderful things, standards. -- Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU), Alcatel-STC Australia, dave@stcns3.stc.oz dave%stcns3.stc.oz.AU@uunet.UU.NET, ...munnari!stcns3.stc.oz.AU!dave PCs haven't changed computing history - merely repeated it