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- From: karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
- Subject: Pax (was Re: Sorry, everyone, but I'm cpio clueless...)
- Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 20:08:27 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.200827.14598@NeoSoft.com>
- References: <1992Jul18.044401.2343@uvm.edu> <1992Jul20.152650.4070@gateway.novell.com> <DJM.92Jul20122506@frob.eng.umd.edu>
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- Pax, a public domain program, can read tar and cpio archives all the way back
- to version 7 tar, and can write IEEE Std 103.1 tar and cpio archives, both
- of which are, in fact, byte-sex independent, plus cpio can archive /dev and
- friends.
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- It has tar and cpio command line interfaces, as well as a pax command line,
- which has more control and can read and write tar and cpio archives from
- the same command-line interface.
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- It was funded by Usenix, and can be found about anywhere on the net.
- It's also /usr/5bin/pax on your Sun, /usr/bin/pax under SCO.
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- It was supposed to bring peace to the tar and cpio camps, but that would cut
- down too much on the flaming. :)
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- Cheers,
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