Re: Your chance to contribute to new POSIX archive format

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 22:15

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Submitted-by: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)

>Submitted-by: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
>[822 as archive format]... Other data types can be identified
>to the extent possible and the type of encoding/encryption/compression
>can be noted per-item...
>One thing that is needed here is to be able to generate multi-part
>archives, possibly spliting files across media...

One thing that disturbs me about this suggestion is that the participants
don't seem to be aware of RFC 1341, which extends RFC 822 in a number of
ways that are relevant to this discussion.  RFC 1342 is also noteworthy.
-- 
There is nothing wrong with making      | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
mistakes, but... make *new* ones. -D.Sim|  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry


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