Re: whither pax?

1999-12-14 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
> "HPA" == H Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: HPA> Could someone comment on whether or not GNU cpio would work as pax? HPA> That would be a very clean solution if it works. GNU paxutils might be a better choice, if it is ever released. Actually, GNU tar and paxutils are eventually go

Re: whither pax?

1999-12-13 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Alan Shutko wrote: > > Kevin Vajk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > 8^) Do you have a link to any info on it somewhere? > > > > Not really, other than the man pages on UNIX systems. It is > > (or at least will be) part of POSIX, which is why I think we > > should have it. > > Ick! It's cpi

Re: whither pax?

1999-12-13 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Alan Shutko wrote: > > Kevin Vajk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > There appears to be BSD-licensed code in FreeBSD we > > could use, and some people claim (although I disagree) > > that it's the new archiving standard. > > How can it be the new archiving standard if I've never heard of it. >

Re: whither pax?

1999-12-13 Thread Alan Shutko
JF Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > IMHO what we should do is crush other Unixes and become the standard > instead of caring about Posix. > > In many ways trying to blindly follow the Unix ways is hindering > Linux. This isn't one of those times. This is a matter of adding a single comm

Re: whither pax?

1999-12-13 Thread Alan Shutko
Kevin Vajk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 8^) Do you have a link to any info on it somewhere? > > Not really, other than the man pages on UNIX systems. It is > (or at least will be) part of POSIX, which is why I think we > should have it. Ick! It's cpio on steriods, with the same junky inte

Re: whither pax?

1999-12-13 Thread JF Martinez
> > On 13 Dec 1999, Alan Shutko wrote: > > > How can it be the new archiving standard if I've never heard of it. > > My sentiments exactly. :) > > > 8^) Do you have a link to any info on it somewhere? > > Not really, other than the man pages on UNIX systems. It is > (or at least will be) p

Re: whither pax?

1999-12-13 Thread Kevin Vajk
On 13 Dec 1999, Alan Shutko wrote: > How can it be the new archiving standard if I've never heard of it. My sentiments exactly. :) > 8^) Do you have a link to any info on it somewhere? Not really, other than the man pages on UNIX systems. It is (or at least will be) part of POSIX, which is

Re: whither pax?

1999-12-13 Thread Chris Pinnock
Kevin Vajk, writes: > Does anybody know if there's a compelling reason for not > including the pax command in the redhat distribution? > There appears to be BSD-licensed code in FreeBSD we > could use, and some people claim (although I disagree) > that it's the new archiving standard. New in whic

Re: whither pax?

1999-12-13 Thread Alan Shutko
Kevin Vajk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There appears to be BSD-licensed code in FreeBSD we > could use, and some people claim (although I disagree) > that it's the new archiving standard. How can it be the new archiving standard if I've never heard of it. 8^) Do you have a link to any info on

whither pax?

1999-12-13 Thread Kevin Vajk
Does anybody know if there's a compelling reason for not including the pax command in the redhat distribution? There appears to be BSD-licensed code in FreeBSD we could use, and some people claim (although I disagree) that it's the new archiving standard. - Kevin Vajk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --