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
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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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