On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:40:10 -0500, Jon Brock wrote:

>Thanks for the tips, folks.  I think I'm going to switch to pax for now,
>and I have downloaded omvstape to look at later.
>
OK, since this came back, I wrote earlier off-list to whoever suggested
pax that both tar and pax can use Classic data sets as archives.

But there's another reason for switching: tar is so obsolete that
POSIX mentions only pax.

-- gil

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