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From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Pax weirdness (bug?)
To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith)
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 21:20:51 +1000 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <199804072239.PAA01290@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Apr 7, 98 03:39:26 pm
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In some mail from Mike Smith, sie said:
> 
> 
> Try this:
> 
> % cat /cdrom/info/info.* | zcat | pax -r -w -v tmpdir
> 
> Be quick with ^C.
> 
> Any ideas?  Known bogon?  Fixes?  (Nothing intuitive, anyway.)

It might be worth importing all the changes Matthew Green has done for
the NetBSD pax.  From memory, they were working on making cpio/tar both
a part of pax (specially adding in GNU tar functionality).

Darren

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