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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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In article <3D289529.95C1EC8A@softweyr.com> Wes wrote:

>spersed.  Zip format makes a lot of sense and is available in library
>format, but I could easily tolerate tar or cpio, as well as a variety
>of compression formats.  The metadata should not be compressed for
>speed of package processing.

`pax' format provides for a convenient extension-header mechanism that
would make this relatively easy to accomplish without inventing a new
archive format.

-GAWollman

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