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From: saj%yipeia@Sun.COM (Scott A. Jordahl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: POSIX compatible tar(1)
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Date: 26 Sep 89 17:10:59 GMT
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In article <718@prles2.UUCP> meulenbr@cstw01.prl.philips.nl (Frans Meulenbroeks) writes:
>As far as a POSIX compatible tar concerns:
>Several moons ago a program called pax was posted to comp.sources.unix.
>This program does the following:
>
>---- Start of excerpt ----
>
>    This is version 1.1 of Pax, a public domain archiving utility.  
>    
>    Pax is an archiving utility that reads and writes tar and cpio formats, 
>    both the traditional ones and the extended formats specified in IEEE
>
...

>
>---- End of excerpt ----
>
>I have not tried to port this program to Minix yet, but it looks like
>this is going to be *the* thing.
...

>
>Frans Meulenbroeks        (meulenbr@cst.prl.philips.nl)
>	Centre for Software Technology
>	( or try: ...!mcvax!phigate!prle!cst!meulenbr)

Be warned that I just saw a posting from the author of PAX that he is
looking for people to beta test version 2.0.  He also indicated that if
no major problems were found, it would be released for general
distribution very soon.  For those thinking about it, it may be more
advantageous to apply porting efforts to this new release.

-- Scott


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