Robert B. Carleton: > I see FreeBSD tar(1) does support pax. I hadn't caught that yet... I > guess I need to catch up on my FreeBSD reading.
FreeBSD uses tar(1) and cpio(1) from the libarchive project. You can get those on OpenBSD by installing the libarchive package, the utilities are called bsdtar(1) and bsdcpio(1). > I did try to use the pax > format with FreeBSD pax just in case it wasn't documented. It didn't > work. Too bad. At least the FreeBSD pax(1) man page and actual features > agree. Both OpenBSD's and FreeBSD's pax(1) go back to the one in 4.4BSD, but they have diverged since. In particular, OpenBSD uses pax as the base for tar and cpio--they're just different frontends for the same program--but FreeBSD doesn't, so pax is a bit neglected there. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
