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From: dfawcus+lists-coff at employees.org (Derek Fawcus)
Subject: [COFF] 21st Century Equivalent to 'learn'?
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 23:02:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200307230231.GA37894@clarinet.employees.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2Oj1DWd8kDBaBpkL=N7uRGTKJCtb4=NLPBTCr4SA+hN2w@mail.gmail.com>

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


  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-07 23:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-04  3:49 wkt
2020-03-04  6:23 ` spedraja
2020-03-04  6:55   ` thomas.paulsen
2020-03-04  9:53   ` wkt
2020-03-04 19:31 ` dave
2020-03-05  1:00 ` wkt
2020-03-05 12:43   ` jpl.jpl
2020-03-05 21:23     ` arrigo
2020-03-06  3:14       ` grog
2020-03-06  9:10     ` akosela
2020-03-07 21:50       ` dave
2020-03-07 22:05         ` clemc
2020-03-07 23:02           ` dfawcus+lists-coff [this message]
2020-03-08  0:02             ` clemc
2020-03-06  3:39   ` bakul
2020-03-12 20:53 ` rtomek
2020-03-08  3:39 rudi.j.blom

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