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- PAX - Portable Archive Interchange
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- This notice is to announce the availability of version 1.1 of Pax,
- a freely distributable archiving utility.
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- Pax is an archiving utility that reads and writes tar and cpio formats,
- both the traditional ones and the extended formats specified in IEEE 1003.1.
- It handles multi-volume archives and automatically determines the format
- of an archive while reading it. Three user interfaces are supported:
- tar, cpio, and pax. The pax interface was designed by IEEE 1003.2 as a
- compromise in the chronic controversy over which of tar or cpio is best.
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- Pax was written by Mark Colburn. The USENIX Association provided some
- support for this implementation project. As a result, the Pax utility
- is being distributed free of charge and may be redistributed by others
- in either source or binary form.
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- The source for Pax is being posted to comp.sources.unix on USENET and will
- also be available by anonymous FTP on the Internet from uunet.uu.net,
- moon.src.honeywell.com and from ucbarpa.berkeley.edu. The source to Pax
- will also be available via anonymous UUCP from jhereg.mn.org, the author's
- home machine, and possibly other sites.
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- Copyright (c) 1989 Mark H. Colburn.
- All rights reserved.
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- Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted
- provided that the above copyright notice is duplicated in all such
- forms and that any documentation, advertising materials, and other
- materials related to such distribution and use acknowledge that the
- software was developed by Mark H. Colburn and sponsored by The
- USENIX Association.
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- THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
- IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
- WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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- For more information about Pax, please contact the author:
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- Mark Colburn
- NAPS International
- 117 Mackubin St., Suite 1
- St. Paul MN 55102
- (612) 224-9108
- mark@jhereg.MN.ORG
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