IEEE 1003.2 (was Re: fixing rm * (was: Worm/Passwords))

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <5203 at bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi at bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>There is no existing portable text archive format.

You seem to be thinking of mailer problems.  That's not what
I had in mind when discussing portable archive formats.

Discussion of whether or not a file format is portable should
start by assuming that it is bit-for-bit transferred without
corruption of information it contains to the target system.
Then you should consider whether a reasonable program that
interprets the archive's contents would work without change
and without system-specific tailoring on both systems.