Re: LSB Commands and Utilities, Draft proposal
> Pax is mandated by POSIX.2
> Using the pax utility you can read both tar and cpio archives and
> extended formats .
> Recent experiments are that the available version of pax derived
> from one of the BSD distributions handles cpio archives better than
> cpio, but is a bit deficient in handle ustar format archives:-)
Given the free pax, and this being the only obvious deviation from the
spec requirements is this worth the effort of being incompatible versus
meeting the existing standards ?
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