1003.2 Command Groups
Moderator, John Quarterman
std-unix at ut-sally.UUCP
Thu Jan 15 11:54:42 AEST 1987
From: seismo!hadron!jsdy at sally.utexas.edu (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Date: 10 Jan 87 02:20:18 GMT
Reply-To: jsdy at hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA
In article <6783 at ut-sally.UUCP> hoptoad!gnu at lll-crg.arpa (John Gilmore) writes:
>I suggest that "cpio" be excluded. Maybe they'll stop distributing
>System V on byte-order-dependent cpio tapes if it becomes non-standard.
>Volume-Number: Volume 9, Number 7
As I understand it, cpio as it currently stands is ASCII (not binary),
in a perfectly understandable format (reasonable byte-by-byte order)
on magnetic tape or byte-oriented file. The problem is with magtape
interfaces that assume, e.g., little-endian order on a big-endian
machine; and transform
byte0
byte1
byte2
byte3
to
byte1 | byte0 | byte3 | byte2
instead of
byte0 | byte1 | byte2 | byte3
(the classic NUXI problem).
--
Joe Yao hadron!jsdy at seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}
jsdy at hadron.COM (not yet domainised)
Volume-Number: Volume 9, Number 16
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