site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Macintosh/20050716) On Oct 5, 2005, at 2:10 PM, Stéphane Sudre wrote: Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: o Is there any plan to open source the pax tool or provide a readable (read: easy to understand) man page? 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. :-) I found it took a bit of getting used to just because PINT: pax is not tar ;-). I wonder why the packaging mechanism was switched from [GNU]tar to pax...presumably to stop some (otherwise) closed-source section of OS X from depending on GPL code...? _______________________________________________ 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... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com