%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ pax pax is an archiving utility created by POSIX and defined by the POSIX.1-2001 standard. Rather than sort out the incompatible options that have crept up between tar and cpio, along with their implementations across various versions of UNIX, the IEEE designed a new archive utility. The name pax is an acronym for portable archive exchange. Furthermore, pax means peace in Latin, so its name implies that it shall create peace between the tar and cpio format supporters. The command invocation and command structure is somewhat a unification of both tar and cpio. pax has been required to be present in LSB conformant systems since LSB version 3.0. &lfs10_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &pax-md5sum; Download size: &pax-size; Estimated disk space required: &pax-buildsize; Estimated build time: &pax-time; User Notes: Install pax by running the following commands:. This package expands to the directory pax. bash Build.sh This package does not come with a test suite. Now, as the root user: This package also creates hard links from pax to the programs cpio and tar in the build directory. The LFS editors do not recommend that they be installed as they will overwrite the GNU versions of these programs. install -v pax /bin && install -v -m644 pax.1 /usr/share/man/man1 Installed Program pax Short Descriptions pax copies files to and from archives in several formats. pax