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Re: LSB Spec 1.0 Criticism



On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 08:21:40AM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>In article <[🔎] 044f01c104ea$7c70a520$ae4efea9@dvdeug>,
>David Starner <dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org> wrote:
>>> If you think about CPIO, keep in mind that it is an outdated format with
>>> POSIX-200x. TAR is the only format that is extendable without end and
>>witout
>>> breaking backward compatibility.

>man cpio
>
>       cpio supports the following archive formats:  binary,  old
>       ASCII,  new  ASCII,  crc, HPUX binary, HPUX old ASCII, old
>       tar, and POSIX.1  tar. 

That paragraph refers to the capabilities of the cpio *program*, not the
underlying cpio data format(s).

Regards,
-- 
Brendan O'Dea                                        bod@compusol.com.au
Compusol Pty. Limited                  (NSW, Australia)  +61 2 9810 3633



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