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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