Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!comcon!roy From: roy@comcon.UUCP (Roy M. Silvernail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: .TAR compress/decompressor wanted for PC Summary: PAX works! Message-ID: <347@comcon.UUCP> Date: 5 Mar 90 11:24:20 GMT References: <3557.25f08429@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> <8431@cg-atla.agfa.com> Distribution: comp Organization: Computer Connection, Anchorage Alaska Lines: 19 In article <8431@cg-atla.agfa.com>, fredex@cg-atla.agfa.com (Fred Smith) writes: > > A program named PAX was posted to c.b.i.p. recently (I think I saw > a note from the moderator since then about a newer one coming soon). > this program supposedly provides the functionality of both tar and cpio > for PC's. I grabbed it but haven't tried it yet, so I can't > report on it myself. I just finished trying PAX out on a tarfile fromanother Unix system... It works just fine at extracting. Now, if I could work up a way for tar to prompt for replacement filenames... those Unix names just don't fit sometimes, and truncating to 8 characters isn't always the best solution. -- _R_o_y _M_. _S_i_l_v_e_r_n_a_i_l | UUCP: uunet!comcon!roy | "Every race must arrive at this #include ;#define opinions MINE | point in its history" SnailMail: P.O. Box 210856, Anchorage, | ........Mr. Slippery Alaska, 99521-0856, U.S.A., Earth, etc. |