On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 04:15:06AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously David Starner wrote: > > And what about PAX, the POSIX compromise? > > No package format uses it and I haven't seen any other use of it either. > I wonder if there is anyone who uses it. the MacOSX (not darwin) packaging system (if you can call it that...) uses it. its been a complete disaster due to pax's creative way of dealing with file permissions... (if your curious look around stepwise.com for a detailed explanation). -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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