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Re: Interactive convenience (was: Newlines in filenames)

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Subject: Re: Interactive convenience (was: Newlines in filenames)
From: Glenn Fowler <yyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:20:28 -0500 (EST)
Organization: AT&T Labs Research
References: <2A8DB02E3018D411901B009027FD3A3F05649D3B@mchp905a.mch.sbs.de> <20050118111553.GA8891@squonk.masqnet> <41ed1258.YZtbPBqAstB/9OH6%Gunnar.Ritter@pluto.uni-freiburg.de> <20050118140008.GA22842@squonk.masqnet> <41ed217e.Roj/lc1CqdgHRNLv%Gunnar.Ritter@pluto.uni-freiburg.de> <41ED4DCD.nailI305CKA8L@burner>
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 18:56:29 +0100 Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Gunnar Ritter <yyyyyyyyyyyyy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Also I'd propose to re-introduce a tar command in the standard just for
> > interactive convenience because approximately nobody out there uses pax.

> Looks like a useful idea, however we should redefine the tar command 
> line syntax to match the POSIX general rules.

please move *that* discussion to an austin-group-l sublist

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