Philip Guenther <guent...@gmail.com> writes: [...] > Yeah, the 'pax' format is "ustar, but with special 'g' and 'x' > records" so it mostly uses the ustar routines when working with pax > archives. > > Maybe those shared routines could look up which format is actually in > use and use that in warning messages. Might be a reasonable intro fix > for someone... > > > > Philip Guenther
I wondered if it might be something like that. I don't think I can work on it soon, but I'm using pax(1) all the time now. I like the command line syntax better than tar/cpio. I'll start looking at the source code. I hadn't done that yet. Thanks, --Bruce