PAX for the IRIS (Bug or missing bits)
George Baciu [CGL]
gbaciu at watcgl.waterloo.edu
Sat May 27 02:05:13 AEST 1989
In article <33705 at sgi.SGI.COM>, jmb at patton.sgi.com (Jim Barton) writes:
> [PAX for the IRIS 4D series, Part 1 of 4]
>
> Due to the large number of requests I have had, I am posting 'pax' for
> the 4D for everyone. Cut off the cruft, glue the files together,
> uudecode the result, and there you have it. The man page is being posted
> separately.
>
Has anybody tested pax yet? On our 4D/120 GTX running 3.1 pax does not
expand directory pathnames very well. In fact, it gets stuck in an
infinite loop with a message saying of the sort "No such file dir/f}y" .
This is when doing in the current directory:
pax -w -f archive *
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