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From: kirk@qnx.com (Kirk Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: where do i get pax?
Date: 8 Jul 1997 17:59:56 -0400
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Duncan McEwan (duncan@comp.vuw.ac.nz) wrote:
> 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.
No. But you can try the "original pax" source code posted to
comp.sources.unix volume17.
> Thanks in advance...
> Duncan