Title: pax Version: 1 Submitted: Feb 3 1989 Author: Mark H. Colburn Submittor: Mark H. Colburn Description: Usenix/IEEE POSIX replacement for TAR and CPIO [ The name is Latin for "peace." --r$ ] 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 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. The USENIX Association provided some support for this implementation project. As a result, the Pax utility is being distributed free of charge and may be redistributed by others in either source or binary form. (See the liscensing section for restrictions) The source for Pax is being posted to comp.sources.unix on USENET and will also be available by anonymous FTP on the Internet from uunet.uu.net, moon.honeywell.com and from one of the Berkeley machines. The source to Pax will be available via anonymous UUCP from jhereg.mn.org, the author's home machine and possibly other sites. The source for Pax will continue to change as long as the definition of the utility is modified by the 1003.2 working group. (For example, there are a number of changes in Draft 8 which will be incorporated as soon as Draft 8 is available). Additional modifications will be made based on user input, such as request for support of additional archive formats, etc. Patches and new releases will be made as new functionality is added or problems are diagnosed and fixed. Please report any bug or problems to: Mark Colburn NAPS International 117 Mackubin St., Suite 1 St. Paul MN 55102 (612) 224-9108 mark@jhereg.MN.ORG