[COFF] 21st Century Equivalent to 'learn'?

[Derek Fawcus]

On Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 05:05:52PM -0500, Clem Cole wrote:
> Dave -- please, let's not re-live 'tar-wars'   -- it's why the POSIX
> command is called 'pax' - God Bless USENIX for funding the original
> implementation and putting it in the public domain.

[snip]

> pax has a user interface that work either ways, and the USENIX public
> implementation can read both tape formats..
> 
> Clem
> 
> PS At Masscomp, I once wrote "car" but no one ever wrote "tpio".

and now we have xar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xar_%28archiver%29),
since obviously everything can be improved by a dose of XML ! ;-)

DF