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Heirloom pax is a version of the POSIX standard archive tool. It is
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from the The Heirloom Toolchest, which has code derived from original
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UNIX material released as Open Source by Caldera and Sun.
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Unlike some other popular pax implementations this version can create
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POSIX.1-2001 pax archives. It can also can read and write zip files,
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RPM packages, various tar formats (including GNU tar), and the cpio
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formats of Cray UNICOS, SGI IRIX (-K), SCO UnixWare (-c) and Tru64
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UNIX (-e).
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The Heirloom Toolchest utilities use a different path structure to
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avoid replacing regular Linux utilities, which may have the same name
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but function slightly differently.
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This SlackBuild installs pax to /usr/lib(64)/heirloom/bin, rather than
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/usr/5bin (where the upstream maintainer suggests) to avoid littering
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the top level of /usr.
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To use heirloom-pax, you have three choices, either call the
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utilities directly by their full paths, manually place symlinks in
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/usr/bin pointing to the appropropriate heirloom-pax version, or add
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either /usr/lib(64)/heirloom/bin or /usr/lib(64)/heirloom/bin/posix2001
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to your PATH variable. The PATH variable is typically set system-wide
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via /etc/profile. Refer to Slackware documentation for alternative
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PATH setting options.
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Note: Another pax based on an old SUSE port of the Mir/OpenBSD
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version is provided by SlackBuilds.org. However, despite the name
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that version cannot actually produce POSIX.1-2001 pax archives, only
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POSIX 1003.1 ustar archives.
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