pax Command pax Portable archive interchange pax is an archiving utility that reads and writes tar and cpio formats, both the traditional ones and the extended formats specified in IEEE document 1003.1. It handles multi-volume ar- chives and automatically determines the format of an archive while reading it. pax supports three user interfaces: tar, cpio, and pax. The pax interface was designed by IEEE 1003.2 as a compromise in the chronic controversy over which of tar or cpio interfaces is su- perior. ***** See Also ***** commands, cpio, tar, ustar ***** Notes ***** To avoid confusion with the traditional COHERENT tar command, the tar command distributed with pax is renamed ustar. See the compressed tar archive /usr/src/alien/pax.tar.Z for full documentation on pax, cpio, and ustar. ***** Copyright Information ***** Copyright ! 1989 by Mark H. Colburn. All rights reserved. pax was developed by Mark H. Colburn and sponsored by The USENIX Association. pax is provided in binary form per the licensing terms set forth by the author. See file /usr/src/alien/pax.tar.Z for licensing terms. COHERENT Lexicon Page 1