On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 12:47:32PM -0500, khym@azeotrope.org wrote:
> 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?

I forgot to mention that I am using pax -x cpio, sorry for the
confusion.  It was suggested that the error meant my path name was too
long.  Is that the case?

Ben