Re: archive format

Joerg Schilling <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lsb.discuss
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>From [email protected] Fri Mar  7 03:07:03 2003

>How about making mutated cpio's just a recommended archive format,
>rather than a required one.

Good idea as CPIO is now called an outdated format from POSIX.1-2001.

TAR + extended headers (supported by star ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star)
is the official standard archive format of the future.

Jörg

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