On 5/11/19 11:04 PM, Rob Landley wrote: > P.P.S. Sadly, if you want an actually standardized standard format where > implementations adhere to the standard: IETF RFC 1991 was published in 1996 and Nope, darn it, checked my notes and that wasn't it. I thought zip had an RFC, it's just zlib, deflate, and gzip, and that's not the number of any of them. I still think sticking with a lightly modified cpio makes the most sense, just... in band signalling that _doesn't_ solve the y2038 problem, the file size limit, or address sparse files seems kinda silly. Rob
