is pax available for cygwin?

2012-09-28 Thread LMH
I don't see pax in the package manager under archive, so I did a search and found a thread about this, but it was from 2004. I need to do some copy operations on files with names containing some characters that annoy bash, so pax would be helpful. Is it in there somewhere or is there a

Re: is pax available for cygwin?

2012-09-28 Thread Warren Young
On 9/28/2012 12:36 PM, LMH wrote: Is it in there somewhere http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=pax.exe Search Results Found 0 matches for pax.exe is there a straight forward way to build it? I would expect such a utility to build from source without trouble, straight out

Re: is pax available for cygwin?

2012-09-28 Thread Achim Gratz
LMH writes: I don't see pax in the package manager under archive, so I did a search and found a thread about this, but it was from 2004. I need to do some copy operations on files with names containing some characters that annoy bash, so pax would be helpful. Jari Aalto has issued an ITP for

Re: pax available?

2004-11-23 Thread Chuck
Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: At 12:26 PM 11/22/2004, you wrote: Subject: Re: pax available? Newsgroups: news.gmane.org:gmane.os.cygwin To: Cygwin List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in ^^^ Again, don't

Re: pax available?

2004-11-23 Thread Reini Urban
Chuck schrieb: Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Got it to work! The problem was actually in compiling lib/makepath.c. I manually compiled it adding the -DHAVE_ERRNO_H definition argument as below. cd /usr/src/paxutils-2.4h/lib gcc -DHAVE_ERRNO_H -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.

Re: pax available?

2004-11-22 Thread Chuck
- Original Message - From: Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Chuck [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Cygwin List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 5:09 PM Subject: Re: pax available? At 04:34 PM 11/19/2004, you wrote: What does any of this have to do with pax? The FAQ doesn't mention

Re: pax available?

2004-11-22 Thread Chuck
I'm sure is stable. Chuck - Original Message - From: Reini Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Chuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 3:29 AM Subject: Re: pax available? Chuck schrieb: I'm actually referring to pax format archives (ustar). I

Re: pax available?

2004-11-22 Thread Chuck
Reini, I just downloaded the version of paxutils you referenced and ran through the configure/install procedures. All it builds is tar.exe and mt.exe. It doesn't build a pax.exe. There were some failures in making tar as you said that appear to be related to creating a test directory and file.

Re: pax available?

2004-11-22 Thread Larry Hall
At 09:16 AM 11/22/2004, you wrote: - Original Message - From: Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Chuck [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Cygwin List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 5:09 PM Subject: Re: pax available? Don't feed the spammers. They're fat enough already. http

Re: pax available?

2004-11-22 Thread Chuck
- Original Message - From: Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Chuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 4:17 PM Subject: Re: pax available? On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Chuck wrote: I can't find pax as a package in the cygwin setup program

Re: pax available?

2004-11-22 Thread Chuck
- Original Message - From: Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Chuck [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Cygwin List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 11:31 AM Subject: Re: pax available? At 09:16 AM 11/22/2004, you wrote: - Original Message - From: Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: pax available?

2004-11-22 Thread Larry Hall
At 12:06 PM 11/22/2004, you wrote - Original Message - From: Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Chuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 4:17 PM Subject: Re: pax available? Again, don't feed the spammers. http://cygwin.com/acronyms

Re: pax available?

2004-11-22 Thread Chuck
Subject: Re: pax available? Newsgroups: news.gmane.org:gmane.os.cygwin To: Cygwin List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: At 12:06 PM 11/22/2004, you wrote - Original Message - From: Igor Pechtchanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Chuck [EMAIL

Re: pax available?

2004-11-22 Thread Larry Hall
At 12:26 PM 11/22/2004, you wrote: Subject: Re: pax available? Newsgroups: news.gmane.org:gmane.os.cygwin To: Cygwin List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in ^^^ Again, don't feed the spammers. http://cygwin.com/acronyms/PCYMTNQREAIYR I'm

Re: pax available?

2004-11-22 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 12:09:48PM -0500, Chuck wrote: BTW How to I get that gmane.org NNTP server to accept posts? Everything I post to the NG goes into oblivion. If I post from email however it works fine. I'd much rather read the threads on a newsreader than in email. That is a question for

Re: pax available?

2004-11-20 Thread Reini Urban
Chuck schrieb: I'm actually referring to pax format archives (ustar). I want to be able to unarchive files - many files - but changing one string in the name to another. I typically use it to clone databases on Solaris. I may have 15 mount points all with a subdirectory named DB1. When I extract

pax available?

2004-11-19 Thread Chuck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I can't find pax as a package in the cygwin setup program. Is it known under some other name? Is it even available for Cygwin? I need the ability to extract files from an archive to a different name and pax is the only archive utility I'm aware of

Re: pax available?

2004-11-19 Thread Larry Hall
At 11:26 AM 11/19/2004, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I can't find pax as a package in the cygwin setup program. Is it known under some other name? Is it even available for Cygwin? I need the ability to extract files from an archive to a different name and pax is the

Re: pax available?

2004-11-19 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Chuck wrote: I can't find pax as a package in the cygwin setup program. Is it known under some other name? Is it even available for Cygwin? I need the ability to extract files from an archive to a different name and pax is the only archive utility I'm aware of that can

Re: pax available?

2004-11-19 Thread Chuck
, 2004 4:17 PM Subject: Re: pax available? On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Chuck wrote: I can't find pax as a package in the cygwin setup program. Is it known under some other name? Is it even available for Cygwin? I need the ability to extract files from an archive to a different name and pax

Re: pax available?

2004-11-19 Thread Larry Hall
At 04:34 PM 11/19/2004, you wrote: What does any of this have to do with pax? The FAQ doesn't mention anything about pax or archiving in general? Again: What packages should I download? Where are 'make', 'gcc', 'vi', etc? Missed the point? OK, let's break it down: What packages should I