paxutils

The paxutils package is an attempt to merge cpio with tar, and add support for the related pax command and format required by POSIX.

This package is not production-quality yet: only test versions are available. The current stable versions of cpio and tar are currently available in their separate packages.

The paxutils tools, which manage archives of files, are cpio, pax and tar. They can save many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive. They collectively include multivolume support, the ability to archive sparse files, automatic archive compression and decompression, remote archives, and special features allow for incremental and full backups.

GNU cpio supports the features of the System V release 4 cpio, including support for tar archives. The included tar is derived from John Gilmore's public domain tar.

This package also includes rmt, the remote tape server, and mt, a tape drive control program; these two programs will only be compiled if your system supports remote command execution, and tape drive control operations, respectively.

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Updated: $Date: 2001/08/17 13:52:34 $ $Author: brett $