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From: bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Backup while in multi-user mode
Message-ID: <1991May30.224905.23176@unixland.uucp>
Organization: Think_Tank BBS & Public Access Unix
References: <EDJB+TC@xds13.ferranti.com> <1991May30.002422.14775@unixland.uucp> <675574289.1712@mindcraft.com>
Date: Thu, 30 May 91 22:49:05 GMT

In article <675574289.1712@mindcraft.com> karish@mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish) writes:
>
>Non-standard?  pax was written specifically to support the tar and
>cpio formats immortalized by the POSIX.1 standard.  Its behavior is
>specified by the draft POSIX.2 standard.  It knows how to read
>traditional tar and cpio formats.
>
>Five years from now you'll be able to read pax archives by using
>pax.
>

OK -- my knowledge of PAX is obviously very limited.  Basically, I 
know it exists ...  

My point is that I may want to read tapes later on a machine that 
doesn't happen to have PAX available.  Will ordinary tars and cpios
read tapes written by PAX?


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