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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

