In <[email protected]>, on
01/20/2014
   at 11:17 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> said:

>I agree with John, rather the Shmuel.  In the OP's command (which
>Shmuel trimmed), it appears that he was trying to write a pax
>archive, not extract one.

The original command, which you didn't quote either, was the value of
"pax -w -X -z -x pax -f //DD:PAX" aDir; the -f option gives an input,
not an output:

   -f archive Lets you specify the name of the archive file instead
        of using the standard input
 
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     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
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