Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!unixland!bill 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: <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? -- bill@unixland.natick.ma.us The Think_Tank BBS & Public Access Unix ...!uunet!think!unixland!bill bill@unixland ..!{uunet,bloom-beacon,esegue}!world!unixland!bill 508-655-3848 (2400) 508-651-8723 (9600-HST) 508-651-8733 (9600-PEP-V32)