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PAX: Portable Archive Interchange
util/pax/
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.
Origin:
Originally posted to comp.sources.unix v17i74 (1.1, 27-DEC-88),
version 2.0 can be found on
ftp.uu.net:/systems/ibmpc/msdos/simtel/archiver/
and other major archives. (Version 1.1 is available as
ftp.uu.net:/usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume17/pax/.)
Version: 2.0 (26-FEB-90)
Requires: ANSI C and POSIX.
Ports: Runs on IBM PC, Unix systems (e.g., HP 9000, Sun, Vax,
SGI), Macintosh II (A/UX), and many more.
Copying: Copyright (C) 1989 Mark H. Colburn. All Rights Reserved.
The Pax utility is being distributed free of charge and
may be redistributed by others in either source or binary form.
(See readme.txt for details.)
Updated: Mon Oct 3 21:12:30 1994
CD-ROM:
Author(s): Mark H. Colburn
Open Systems Architects, Inc.
7555 Marketplace Drive
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
Harold G. Walters (MSDOS Version)
School of Civil Engineering
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK 74078
Keywords:
Archiving Software, Utilities, pax@{{\tt pax}},
tar@{{\tt .tar}}
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