On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 01:37:31PM -0400, Charles Swiger wrote:
> "man pax" says this:
> 
>            tar      The old BSD tar format as found in 4.3BSD.  The default

However, the default format for pax is ustar, not tar.

But why did the error message mention the "Cpio header"? Don't you only
get that message if you use pax -x cpio?