8 Mar
2020
8 Mar
'20
5:02 a.m.
On Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 05:05:52PM -0500, Clem Cole wrote:
Dave -- please, let's not re-live
'tar-wars' -- it's why the POSIX
command is called 'pax' - God Bless USENIX for funding the original
implementation and putting it in the public domain.
[snip]
pax has a user interface that work either ways, and
the USENIX public
implementation can read both tape formats..
Clem
PS At Masscomp, I once wrote "car" but no one ever wrote "tpio".
and now we have xar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xar_%28archiver%29)
since obviously everything can be improved by a dose of XML ! ;-)
DF