Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> writes: > pax is required to be present in all conformant systems by Linux > Standard Base since version 3.0 (released on July 6, 2005),[2] but so > far few Linux distributions ship and install it by default. However, > most distributions include pax as a separately installable package."
> I find pax under Solaris, FreeBSD, & Apple's OS X but not (by default on) > Ubtuntu Linux. Ah, it might be more widespread than I thought. It seems to be on RHEL 5 as well (although I'm not sure what level of install you need). It's packaged for Debian, of course, but isn't part of a typical install. -- Russ Allbery (r...@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>