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Article #1253PAX - Portable Archive Interchange
From: Mark H. Colburn
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 1989 05:20
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 1989 05:20
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From: Mark H. Colburn <mark@jhereg.jhereg.mn.org>
PAX - Portable Archive Interchange
This notice is to announce the availability of 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.
Pax was written by Mark Colburn. 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.
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 ucbarpa.berkeley.edu. The source to Pax will
also be available via anonymous UUCP from jhereg.mn.org, the author's home
machine, and possibly other sites.
Copyright (c) 1989 Mark H. Colburn.
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted
provided that the above copyright notice is duplicated in all such
forms and that any documentation, advertising materials, and other
materials related to such distribution and use acknowledge that the
software was developed by Mark H. Colburn and sponsored by The
USENIX Association.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
For more information about Pax, please contact the author:
Mark Colburn
NAPS International
117 Mackubin St., Suite 1
St. Paul MN 55102
(612) 224-9108
mark@jhereg.MN.ORG
Volume-Number: Volume 15, Number 57
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