site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com Bug Report Request: Have Jordan Hubbard included in the Developer Documentation Summary: References: S-Tar home: http://freshmeat.net/redir/star/9985/url_homepage/star.html _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... The pax(1) archiving tool has a man page that is rather difficult to understand, particularly for us poor sods who have been brainwashed by the GNU tar and cpio implementation. Jordan claims to understand the pax(1) man page, so he should be included in the ADC Library documentation distribution to hit us with his cluestick... Alternatively, the documentation provided with star (ess-tar) could be expanded to incorporate the BSD version of pax(1). The pax tool comes from FreeBSD (well, some BSD anyway - it's a bit old) and is already open source. I just went and looked at the man page and didn't have any trouble understanding it, either. :-) This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com