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Revised Pax Announcement

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From: Mark H. Colburn
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1989 16:09
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From: Mark H. Colburn <mark@jhereg.jhereg.mn.org>

John -

This announcement has three changes to it:

1) Merchantability is now spelled correctly.
2) moon.src.honeywell.com is now listed correctly, rather than
   moon.honeywell.com.
3) The package is now described as "freely distributable," rather than
   "public domain."  Keith pointed out that the copyright invalidates
   the public domain comment, or vice-versa.

--
Mark H. Colburn                  "They didn't understand a different kind of 
NAPS International                smack was needed, than the back of a hand, 
mark@jhereg.mn.org                something else was always needed."
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               PAX - Portable Archive Interchange



This notice is to announce the availability of version 1.1 of Pax, 
a freely distributable 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.src.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 MERCHANTABILITY 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

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Subject: Revised Pax Announcement
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