Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!bionet!ames!sgi!jmb@patton.sgi.com
From: jmb@patton.sgi.com (Jim Barton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Another Backup Tool
Keywords: pax tar cpio
Message-ID: <34019@sgi.SGI.COM>
Date: 31 May 89 00:48:44 GMT
References: <33505@sgi.SGI.COM> <312@alias.UUCP>
Sender: daemon@sgi.SGI.COM
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
Lines: 24

In article <312@alias.UUCP>, rae%alias@csri.utoronto.ca (Reid Ellis) writes:
> jmb@patton.sgi.com (Jim Barton) writes:
> |In case anyone is interested, I have ported 'pax'
> 
> What did you have to change?  Could you post the patches to the source as
> well as the binaries?  I've been using pax in its tar incarnation on Iris
> 4Ds for the last couple of months [since pax was posted] and the only
> problem I've encountered has been creating new archives on old tapes that
> already have stuff on them.  Is this what you patched?
> 
> 					Reid

Hope you didn't miss my last posting, but my only purpose in posting 'pax'
was for those poor souls without access to the source or a way (or the
knowledge) of how to build it.  If you built it yourself, then it should be
identical to what I built.  I never changed a line of code.

-- Jim Barton
Silicon Graphics Computer Systems    "UNIX: Live Free Or Die!"
jmb@sgi.sgi.com, sgi!jmb@decwrl.dec.com, ...{decwrl,sun}!sgi!jmb

  "I used to be disgusted, now I'm just amused."
			- Elvis Costello, 'Red Shoes'
--