Subject: Re: deprecating long options in tar and cpio
To: None <woods@most.weird.com>
From: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 01/26/1999 21:00:23
Uh, a factual correction regarding your `history: The pax(1) from
4.4-Lite did *not* have a cpio frontend, and tar frontend was rather
incomplete and buggy.  Not to mention that pax(1) itself was somewhat
buggy at that time.

I'm not going to reply to the rest, since it's obviously flame bait.