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Subject: Re: pax in /rescue
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In message: <1f27304c0809062222m724603dat2fb1af63dba5faa6@mail.gmail.com>
            chinsan <chinsan.tw@gmail.com> writes:
: On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 12:40 PM, M. Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
: > Is there any reason to continue to include both tar and pax in
: > /rescue?
: >
: Maybe for rescue some important file?

tar can read all the formats that pax can read.  Why the duplication
in functionality?

: BTW, could editors/e3 be include into /rescue?
: I think it's ineed to have a text editor to edit some file for rescue.
: Because vi(1) lives in /usr/bin.

/rescue already has nvi.

: ps. e3 is a full featured text editor written in NASM assembler.  It is highly
: optimized for size.

I notice pax was there when I was looking at it on my FreeBSD/arm box
:-)

Warner