Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 19:22:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Diekhans <markd@Grizzly.COM> To: tom@uniserve.com Cc: blapp@attic.ch, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, hoek@hwcn.org Subject: Re: GNU-Tar should be updated Message-ID: <199806240222.TAA23225@osprey.grizzly.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980623172220.6388C-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> (message from Tom on Tue, 23 Jun 1998 17:26:01 -0700 (PDT)) References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980623172220.6388C-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
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>From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> > pax is also a nice tar replacement. On BSDI, tar is just a link to pax. >I'm pretty sure pax can backup up /dev I worked on some distribution software about 5 years ago that look at incorporating the pax code to read tar files. We ended up finding some serious bugs and dropped the idea. I don't remember the nature of the bugs, but they were reproduced on every system that had a vendor copy of pax that I could find. Attempts to contact the author failed. Unless someone has done some major work on pax, I would recommend staying away from it. Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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