From: clemc at ccc.com (Clem Cole)
Subject: [COFF] 21st Century Equivalent to 'learn'?
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2020 19:02:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2P7fgJs611=Vmb2Sw7XE4itdizYAptnTjZiTDnXxV01gg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200307230231.GA37894@clarinet.employees.org>
It's worse than just being XML. The whole idea of tar and cpio was to fix
the problem tp/stp had of putting the catalog at the front of the tape
(archive) and thread the directory through out it. Sigh... if you don't
learn from history, you are destined to repeat iot.
On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 6:12 PM Derek Fawcus <
dfawcus+lists-coff at employees.org> wrote:
> 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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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
2020-03-08 0:02 ` clemc [this message]
2020-03-06 3:39 ` bakul
2020-03-12 20:53 ` rtomek
2020-03-08 3:39 rudi.j.blom
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