Light relief (was Re: IEEE 1003.2)

[Dominic Dunlop]

In article <4407 at xenna.Encore.COM> bzs at Encore.COM (Barry Shein) writes:

[relevant stuff deleted -- I'm making an irrelevant posting here...]

>For that matter why not just combine tar and ar and add a flag to tar
>to include an archive symbol table...

Better make that a flag to cpio.  In System V, release 4, cpio will have
a new flag, -Htar, that makes it read and write tar-format archives...
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Dominic Dunlop
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