>Number:         26521
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       pax does not support "pax" archive format
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Aug 02 20:32:00 UTC 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Darrin B. Jewell
>Release:        NetBSD 2.0
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:

There is a new archive format available for pax which overcomes
some of the limitations of cpio and ustar formats.

A description of it can be found here:
  <URL:http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/pax.html>

It might be nice to support it.

>How-To-Repeat:

    $ pax -x pax
    pax: Unknown -x format: pax
    pax: Known -x formats are: bcpio cpio sv4cpio sv4crc tar ustar

>Fix:

A simple matter of programming.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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