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- Submitted-by: kunkee@ferranti.com (randy kunkee)
-
- I have version 1.2 of "PAX - Portable Archive Interchange" written
- by Mark Colburn. First, many thanks to Mark, and to Larry Jones for
- his unofficial patches to PAX, and thanks to USENIX for sponsoring
- its development. This is a very useful utility and I've been using
- it in some of our systems as a backup utility.
-
- Unfortunately, the version of PAX I have has trouble when restoring linked
- files. This is because the routines for managing links depend on knowing
- a file's device and inode number. This information is available in cpio
- format, but not in tar format. PAX blithely tries to link everything that
- has a link together, since the device and inode numbers passed to the
- link routines are always zero.
-
- Does anybody have code that fixes PAX's ability to restore links from
- (US)TAR format?
-
- [ Note followup, please -- mod ]
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 26, Number 92
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