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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.

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.

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.

It was supposed to bring peace to the tar and cpio camps, but that would cut
down too much on the flaming. :)

Cheers,
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