[lsb-discuss] archive format
Joerg Schilling
schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de
Mon Mar 10 07:08:22 PST 2003
>From lsb-discuss-admin at freestandards.org 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Good idea as CPIO is now called an outdated format from POSIX.1-2001.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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