Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!ira.uka.de!smurf!flatlin!ptavv!ralf From: ralf@ptavv.ka.sub.org (Ralf Wenk) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: tar files Message-ID: <1991May19.174754.00322@ptavv.ka.sub.org> Date: 19 May 91 17:47:54 GMT Article-I.D.: ptavv.1991May19.174754.00322 References: Lines: 12 In article klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl (Klamer Schutte) writes: > For backup purposes, especially if you are on 64+64k minix-PC, you might > want to have PAX. This is in the beta-minix pipeline. I am using a program called pax since it was posted in comp.sources.unix. It writes and reads PAX-, tar- and cpio-archives. If mine is the same pax as the one in the beta-minix pipeline the work is done long ago. -- -- Ralf Wenk -- ralf@ptavv.ka.sub.org