tar format

[John Quarterman]

In article <165 at hadron.UUCP> jsdy at hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) writes:
>I'm not sure whether SVID addresses it (I'm pretty sure it doesn't).
>However, the IEEE OS standard has a tape information interchange
>standard that looks remarkably, I am told, like tar.	;-)

The current IEEE P1003 draft standard (Draft 6) includes a data interchange
format which is modeled after tar.  It has some extensions to the V7 one,
including a format for directory entries on the tape which is the same
as the one 4BSD uses:  like plain files, but with a slash on the end of
the filename.
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