Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ncar!ames!mindcraft.com!karish From: karish@mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Backup while in multi-user mode Summary: pax not standard? Message-ID: <675574289.1712@mindcraft.com> Date: 30 May 91 03:31:28 GMT References: <1991May24.013214.2526@servalan.uucp> <1991May30.002422.14775@unixland.uucp> Organization: Mindcraft, Inc. Lines: 23 In article <1991May30.002422.14775@unixland.uucp> bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser) writes: >In article peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >> >>Your CPIO might have all those flaws. Ours doesn't. Ever hear of a program >>by the name of "pax"? > >I'm leery of something non-standard like PAX. What happens 5 years from >now when we need to restore something from a tape created on a Sun/386i >(for example) to a Sparc-L? :-) 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. -- Chuck Karish karish@mindcraft.com Mindcraft, Inc. (415) 323-9000