The following reply was made to PR bin/23776; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: James Chacon <jmc@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: PR/23776 CVS commit: src/bin/pax
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 06:19:03 +0000 (UTC)

 Module Name:	src
 Committed By:	jmc
 Date:		Sun Jan 23 06:19:03 UTC 2005
 
 Modified Files:
 	src/bin/pax: ar_subs.c pat_rep.c
 
 Log Message:
 Apply user supplied patterns first before applying actions for -A. This way pax
 behavior WRT to patterns lines up with the example in the documentation
 and how other implementations do it as well since -A is a non-standard
 option/behavior. Fixes items noted in PR#23776
 
 
 To generate a diff of this commit:
 cvs rdiff -r1.34 -r1.35 src/bin/pax/ar_subs.c
 cvs rdiff -r1.22 -r1.23 src/bin/pax/pat_rep.c
 
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