Michael Hudson <mwh@python.net> writes:
> > Not only that, but if you copy/rename the Windows pax.exe program to
> > tar.exe or cpio.exe it changes its command line options to match. So all
> > recent versions of Windows ship with tar and cpio included (sort of).
>> Oh, so thats why some of the files inside installer bundles on MacOS
> have the extension .pax.gz. Learn something every day.
This is getting off-topic, but I'd like to point out that introduction
of the "pax" utility was the solution to the "tar wars" :-)
Regards,
Martin