[Python-Dev] Adding Optik to 2.3 standard library (original) (raw)

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
19 Apr 2002 22:29:42 +0200

Michael Hudson <mwh@python.net> writes:

> Not only that, but if you copy/rename the Windows pax.exe program to > tar.exe or cpio.exe it changes its command line options to match. So all > recent versions of Windows ship with tar and cpio included (sort of).

Oh, so thats why some of the files inside installer bundles on MacOS have the extension .pax.gz. Learn something every day.

This is getting off-topic, but I'd like to point out that introduction of the "pax" utility was the solution to the "tar wars" :-)

Regards, Martin