andrew@frip.gwd.tek.com (Andrew Klossner) (10/21/88)
[] Only IBM could produce three different tape formats for the same machine!" Or the world of Unix, where we've seen tp, tar, and cpio.
roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) (10/21/88)
andrew@frip.gwd.tek.com (Andrew Klossner) writes: > Or the world of Unix, where we've seen tp, tar, and cpio. Not to mention dump, in its various incarnations. Granted, dump is not really meant for file transfer like tar et al. are, but system software is often distributed that way. -- Roy Smith, System Administrator Public Health Research Institute {allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!roy -or- phri!roy@uunet.uu.net "The connector is the network"
dave@micropen (David F. Carlson) (10/21/88)
In article <10501@tekecs.TEK.COM>, andrew@frip.gwd.tek.com (Andrew Klossner) writes: > [] > > Only IBM could produce three different tape formats for the > same machine!" > > Or the world of Unix, where we've seen tp, tar, and cpio. Furthermore, what about dump(8) and the oft used hpio(1)? (hpio dumps a tape to a suitably equiped HP 2645A *terminal* which has a tape deck built in. Isn't System V fun!) -- David F. Carlson, Micropen, Inc. micropen!dave@ee.rochester.edu "The faster I go, the behinder I get." --Lewis Carroll
dave@stcns3.stc.oz (Dave Horsfall) (11/01/88)
In article <3558@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes: | andrew@frip.gwd.tek.com (Andrew Klossner) writes: | > Or the world of Unix, where we've seen tp, tar, and cpio. | | Not to mention dump, in its various incarnations. Granted, dump is | not really meant for file transfer like tar et al. are, but system software | is often distributed that way. Not to mention VOLCOPY and DD ... Ok, they're not "formats", but a lot of system distributions come that way as well. What's that up to - 5 formats now? And no doubt various proprietary products. Wonderful things, standards. -- Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU), Alcatel-STC Australia, dave@stcns3.stc.oz dave%stcns3.stc.oz.AU@uunet.UU.NET, ...munnari!stcns3.stc.oz.AU!dave PCs haven't changed computing history - merely repeated it