Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1998-31,: Re: what is a .pax file ?

# Re: what is a .pax file ?

Benjamin Redelings I (bredelin@ucsd.edu)
Thu, 06 Aug 1998 08:59:51 -0700

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Well, pax is an archive tool that can output in multiple formats. It write
an extended tar format by default, I think. You can look at the contents
of archives (including *.tar archives) by doing 'pax < archive'.

So perhaps it is just a tar file. Have you tried 'tar -tf
linux-2.0.32.pax' ? If that doesn't work, then perhaps you'll need to get
the 'pax' tool. Debian has 'pax'... thats where I got mine from.

-BenRI

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