repost: What happened to PAX?

[Chuck]

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I posted this a couple of days ago and didn't really get a good answer
so I'm asking again.

What happened to the pax utility that used to be part of win2k? I moved
up to WinXP and it's gone. I actually used that utility and found it
very handy for exchanging archives between windows and unix.

The previous response basically said to run a google search on
"pax"+"windows xp". That turned up nothing but references to a game, a
picture viewer, and some writer's comparison between Microsoft and the
Roman Empire.

I'm looking for the "portable archive exchange" utility that used to be
part of Windows.

TIA

Chuck


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[PA Bear]

PAX is a Posix utility. PAX was a DOS command in Win2K.

http://www.google.com/ie?q="portable+archive+exchange"&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1

http://www.google.com/ie?q="pax"+site:microsoft.com&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&start=10&sa=N

Also see
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/interop/sfu/inxtape.mspx

 

[Guest]

I don't know about pax but are you aware that there are
zip utilities for Unix and most Windows ZIP utilities
also speak tar, gz etc?

Given how obscure pax appears to be be, it might be worth
looking at the alternatives.

 

[Chuck]

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I don't know about pax but are you aware that there are
zip utilities for Unix and most Windows ZIP utilities
also speak tar, gz etc?

Given how obscure pax appears to be be, it might be worth
looking at the alternatives.

I know how obscure pax is but it does something that none of the other
batch mode archivers (cpio, tar, zip, etc) does. It lets you change the
name of the files as you extract them. There have been times where I've
needed to do that. For example if I want to clone a database that was
backed up with pax. I can give a substiution pattern when extracting the
files and have them extracted to new locations and not overwrite the
original ones (which in the case of a live DB would be catastrophic).

Want to restore all files except changing the string DB1 to DB2
everywhere it appears in the file names? No problem. Just say...

pax -r -s/DB1/DB2/gp < file.pax

I don't think any of the other archivers let you do that.

Chuck


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[Chuck]

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PAX is a Posix utility. PAX was a DOS command in Win2K.

http://www.google.com/ie?q="portable+archive+exchange"hl=en&lr=&c2
coff=1

http://www.google.com/ie?q="pax"site:microsoft.com&hl=en&lr=&c2cof
f=1&start=10&sa=N

Also see
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/interop/sfu/inxtape.mspx

I'm quite aware of what pax is. What I'd like to know is why Microsoft
got rid of it. Or did they? Maybe it's in some package or SP that I
still need to install. I just haven't been able to find any Windows XP
version of it.


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[reader]

I'm quite aware of what pax is. What I'd like to know is why Microsoft
got rid of it. Or did they? Maybe it's in some package or SP that I
still need to install. I just haven't been able to find any Windows XP
version of it.

chuck, there is a unix tool of the same name that may do what you
want. The manual page is so lengthy I didn't read it to see.

It comes as part of the UWIN toolset. UWin is a package of unix tools
for windows available at:

http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/

You can read the lengthy man page here:

www.jtan.com/~reader/vu/display.shtml

It is a very capable tool. You'll find many uses for the extensive
toolset in UWIN anyway.

 

[Chuck]

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chuck, there is a unix tool of the same name that may do what you
want. The manual page is so lengthy I didn't read it to see.

It comes as part of the UWIN toolset. UWin is a package of unix tools
for windows available at:

http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/

You can read the lengthy man page here:

www.jtan.com/~reader/vu/display.shtml

It is a very capable tool. You'll find many uses for the extensive
toolset in UWIN anyway.

Thanks.

The "unix" toolset I use on Windows is cygwin. Unfortunately cygwin
doesn't have a version of pax yet. I did however find something free for
XP on the Miscrosoft web site called SFU (services for unix) which
includes pax and a lot of other stuff. I'm still playing with it. I
still like cygwin for my unix-like environment, but can access the SFU
utilities if I need them by adding them to the path.

SFU looks very interesting in it's own right. It includes a free NFS
client too.

Chuck
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