> "Everything's better with XML, even tar".  "XAR!" which is kind of fun
> to yell came out of it.

; wc -l /sys/src/cmd/tapefs/tarfs.c
    140 tarfs.c

tar is not that bad a format to use for structured data.  it's easy to 
implement.
you can capture data movement and fiddle with it easily. 

that being said, i'd still much rather have a filesystem-like interface.

- erik

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