On 1/13/06, Sergey Poznyakoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> t takahashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > perhaps this is a great opportunity for interested developers to
> > create a new -H type that:
>
> Possibly so. I believe, however, that the listed goals were achieved by
> the POSIX specification of `pax' command, weren't they? While GNU pax is
> not yet available, most of its features are already provided by GNU tar.

haven't looked at the spec.  if gnu pax format allows arbitrary
archive sizes, pathname lengths, filename lengths, entry lengths,
inode sizes, file types, etc., that's wonderful.

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