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From: duncan@comp.vuw.ac.nz (Duncan McEwan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: where do i get pax?
Date: 2 Jul 1997 04:43:08 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Victoria Uni. of Wellington, New Zealand.
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Phil Humphreys (ph@imall.com) asked:
>
> I'd like to get the source for the pax utility so I can compile it
> on my linux box. Can someone give me a hand finding it?
>
To which Ian Hibbert (plunky@skate.demon.co.uk) replied:
>
> archie knows..
>
True -- an archie search for pax gives loads of references to "pax-2.1.tar.gz",
mostly from mirrors of linux archives, so Phil should have found it OK.
However this pax seems to not be POSIX compliant (for eg, the meaning
of the '-p' and '-d' flags at least, are different).
Now, I'd like to get POSIX compliant pax sources so I can replace the pax on
Solaris, since it seems to be slightly broken wrt symbolic links.
Unfortunately, archie only finds me pax-2.1.tar.gz, or ones from various
{Net,Free,Open}BSD source trees. The *BSD sources look a little hard to port
to Solaris (amongst other things, they need the fts routines, and the dirent
structure is different).
So does anyone know of *POSIX compliant* sources for pax that will be portable
to non-BSD machines.
Thanks in advance...
Duncan