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From:
Michael G Schwern
Date:
February 8, 2001 09:52
Subject:
Re: Auto-install (was autoloaded...)
Message ID:
20010208175159.B5279@blackrider.aocn.com
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 05:39:01PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> Do we really want to use tar format (over say cpio) as tar rounds files
> up to 512 block boundaries, and has some arbitrary restrictions on filename
> lengths in the headers?

First cut will be tar.  Why?  Its simple, its common, and we have a
well-developed Perl module for it.  Later it can be changed to
anything we want.  Encapsulation++

-- 

Michael G. Schwern   <schwern@pobox.com>    http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/
Maybe they hooked you up with one of those ass-making magazines.
	-- brian d. foy as misheard by Michael G Schwern
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