From e46f484ad4a67674a4b95790fcd69dfbd05544b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "David E. O'Brien" Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 15:46:25 +0000 Subject: Add small blurb about pax(1) to the list of backup utils. --- handbook/hw.sgml | 14 +++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/handbook/hw.sgml b/handbook/hw.sgml index dc368da47f..6a3dbb2348 100644 --- a/handbook/hw.sgml +++ b/handbook/hw.sgml @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - + + +

pax(1) is IEEE/POSIX's answer to tar and + cpio. Over the years the various versions of tar and + cpio have gotten slightly incompatable. So rather than fight it + out to fully standardize them, POSIX created a new archive utilility. + pax attempts to read and write many of the various cpio and tar + formats, plus new formats of its own. Its command set more resembles + cpio than tar. + + -- cgit v1.3