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

[Rahul Dhesi]

No archive format that allows any of the following can be considered
portable:

    lines consisting of a single dot
    lines beginning with the word "From"
    lines ending with blanks
    lines containing embedded tab characters
    lines containing control characters
    lines containing graphic characters (e.g. { } \ |)
       for which there is no standard EBCDIC convention
    lines that exceed 80 characters

There is no existing portable text archive format.
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