Kevin Vajk, writes:
> Does anybody know if there's a compelling reason for not
> including the pax command in the redhat distribution?
> There appears to be BSD-licensed code in FreeBSD we
> could use, and some people claim (although I disagree)
> that it's the new archiving standard.
New in which sense? The man page on pax from FreeBSD is dated April 1994.
I haven't used pax under FreeBSD, but NetBSD uses it in its install
process to untar and gunzip .tgz archives (I'm 90% sure of this...).
It does more - I really don't know much about it.
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