Re: Your chance to contribute to new POSIX archive format

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From: Christophe Wolfhugel
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 20:52

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Submitted-by: Christophe.Wolfhugel@univ-lyon1.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel)

david@mks.com (David Rowley) writing about PAX:
> larger field sizes for dates, times, file lengths, etc.

And also, something that nor tar nor cpio have: large file names.

The current limit of around 100-128 characters for the filename
is catastrophic. Simply too short!

Also I guess users would appreciate: the ability to archive
in absolute format and restore in relative. Not all users do
relative archives. And one knows how dangerous an absolute
archive can be. Even when I get a tape from the oustide I prefer
being able to restore it in relative mode, without having to
check before it all files on the archive are or not absolute.

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Christophe Wolfhugel    |    Email: Christophe.Wolfhugel@univ-lyon1.fr
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