dsamperi@Citicorp.COM (Dominick Samperi) (11/18/89)
From: dsamperi@Citicorp.COM (Dominick Samperi) Can somebody tell me where one can find the latest CPIO/TAR file archive standards documented? Will these standards actually be used for the "Open Systems" of the future, as defined by OSF, AT&T, POSIX, etc.? -- --- Dominick Samperi -- Citicorp dsamperi@Citicorp.COM uunet!ccorp!dsamperi Volume-Number: Volume 17, Number 58
mark@jhereg.Minnetech.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn) (11/22/89)
From: mark@jhereg.Minnetech.MN.ORG (Mark H. Colburn) In article <430@longway.TIC.COM> dsamperi@Citicorp.COM (Dominick Samperi) writes: >Can somebody tell me where one can find the latest CPIO/TAR file >archive standards documented? Will these standards actually be used >for the "Open Systems" of the future, as defined by OSF, AT&T, POSIX, >etc.? The arhive format which was standardized by POSIX is in the IEEE Posix 1003.1 standard in Chapter 10. As far as implementations supporting the standard, POSIX definitely will since it is a part of the standard. OSF, UI, etc. will support it if they wish to be POSIX compliant. If they don't wish to be POSIX compliant, they are not bound (except by their customers) to support any standard at all. I would be very suprised any Unix-like operating system which is released in the next few years does not support the Posix standard. -- Mark H. Colburn mark@Minnetech.MN.ORG Open Systems Architects, Inc. Volume-Number: Volume 17, Number 67