From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 22 05:49:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA24003 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 May 1996 05:49:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.EUnet.hu (mail.eunet.hu [193.225.28.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA23962 for ; Wed, 22 May 1996 05:48:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.EUnet.hu, id OAA10588; Wed, 22 May 1996 14:48:32 +0200 Received: by CoDe.CoDe.hu (LAA01600); Wed, 22 May 1996 11:36:17 GMT From: Gabor Zahemszky Message-Id: <199605221136.LAA01600@CoDe.CoDe.hu> Subject: pax cannot save socket To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 11:36:17 +0000 (GMT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The documentation of pax says, the default archive type is ustar (the POSIX tar format). The same is true with GNU's tar, too. But: pax generates a warning about in POSIX mode, cannot save a socket. And `file' says: tar archive, but with GNU-tar, says: POSIX tar archive. ???? -- Gabor Zahemszky -:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- Earth is the cradle of human sense, but you can't stay in the cradle forever. Tsiolkovsky