Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!reading!riddle!domo
From: domo@riddle.UUCP (Dominic Dunlop)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Light relief (was Re: IEEE 1003.2)
Summary: AT&T still wants tar to lie down and die...
Keywords: tar, ar, cpio, death-wish
Message-ID: <953@riddle.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 88 16:45:50 GMT
References: <9137@smoke.BRL.MIL> <33251@think.UUCP> <14946@mimsy.UUCP> <4407@xenna.Encore.COM>
Reply-To: domo@riddle.UUCP (Dominic Dunlop)
Organization: Sphinx Ltd., Maidenhead, England
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In article <4407@xenna.Encore.COM> bzs@Encore.COM (Barry Shein) writes:

[relevant stuff deleted -- I'm making an irrelevant posting here...]

>For that matter why not just combine tar and ar and add a flag to tar
>to include an archive symbol table...

Better make that a flag to cpio.  In System V, release 4, cpio will have
a new flag, -Htar, that makes it read and write tar-format archives...
-- 
Dominic Dunlop
domo@sphinx.co.uk  domo@riddle.uucp