John Plocher <John.Plocher at sun.com> wrote:
> David.Comay at Sun.COM wrote:
> > Whether or not we should do "unzoo" or "nethack" seems much more a
> > business decision.
>
>
> The architecture question for me is
>
> Do we do unzoo and unustar and unasc and unvdb and untnef and ....
>
> OR
>
> do we do pax, which does them all.
pax typically deals with tar and cpio formats.
There are many pax implementations and eaach of them has different goals.
A pax implementation that deals with many archive types may miss other
features that are important on your local platform.
J?rg
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