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# 1.72 06-Nov-2021 gutteridge

pax.1: minor grammar fixes


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# 1.71 19-Mar-2019 gutteridge

pax.1 & tar.1: add a minor clarification about "-s"

As a somewhat pedantic clarification, "-s" does not accept backslashes
as delimiters. (While here, also make the macro use of an expression
shared between pax.1 and tar.1 consistent.)


# 1.70 19-Mar-2019 gutteridge

pax.1: document the "s" flag of the "s" option

Note the "s" option has an "s" flag that "prevents substitutions from
being performed on symbolic link destinations". Carry over r. 1.25 from
christos@ and part of r. 1.26 from wiz@ from tar.1, since this
functionality is available in pax as well as tar.


Revision tags: pgoyette-compat-merge-20190127 pgoyette-compat-20190127 pgoyette-compat-20190118 pgoyette-compat-1226 pgoyette-compat-1126 pgoyette-compat-1020 pgoyette-compat-0930 pgoyette-compat-0906 pgoyette-compat-0728 phil-wifi-base pgoyette-compat-0625 pgoyette-compat-0521 pgoyette-compat-0502 pgoyette-compat-0422 pgoyette-compat-0415 pgoyette-compat-0407 pgoyette-compat-0330 pgoyette-compat-0322 pgoyette-compat-0315 pgoyette-compat-base perseant-stdc-iso10646-base
# 1.69 03-Jul-2017 wiz

branches: 1.69.6;
Remove workaround for ancient HTML generation code.


Revision tags: netbsd-8-3-RELEASE netbsd-8-2-RELEASE netbsd-8-1-RELEASE netbsd-8-1-RC1 netbsd-8-0-RELEASE netbsd-8-0-RC2 netbsd-8-0-RC1 matt-nb8-mediatek-base netbsd-8-base prg-localcount2-base3 prg-localcount2-base2 prg-localcount2-base1 prg-localcount2-base pgoyette-localcount-20170426 bouyer-socketcan-base1 pgoyette-localcount-20170320 bouyer-socketcan-base pgoyette-localcount-20170107 pgoyette-localcount-20161104 localcount-20160914
# 1.68 12-Aug-2016 sevan

Document the version pax first appeared.
Bump date.


Revision tags: pgoyette-localcount-20160806 pgoyette-localcount-20160726 pgoyette-localcount-base
# 1.67 19-Dec-2015 wiz

Remove trailing whitespace.


# 1.66 19-Dec-2015 christos

Add the timestamp option to the pax front end.


# 1.65 04-Nov-2015 wiz

Use An in AUTHORS section.


# 1.64 03-Nov-2015 pgoyette

By my count, [[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]hh]mm[.ss] has seven fields, not six!


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# 1.63 14-Nov-2013 wiz

Stop hissing.


# 1.62 14-Nov-2013 christos

add --gnu for pax.


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# 1.61 19-Jun-2011 wiz

branches: 1.61.2; 1.61.8;
Use Fl Fl for long options.


# 1.60 19-Jun-2011 christos

document --xz


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# 1.59 19-Jun-2010 wiz

branches: 1.59.4;
Use Fl Fl for long options. Remove unnecessary Bk/Ek.


# 1.58 19-Jun-2010 christos

add --use-compress-program to pax, requested by mrg.


# 1.57 05-Apr-2010 joerg

\\ -> \e


Revision tags: matt-premerge-20091211
# 1.56 06-Sep-2009 christos

too many dots. noted by anon-ymous


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# 1.55 02-Dec-2007 wiz

Minimally sort options; use Dq.


# 1.54 26-Oct-2007 hira

Remove extra space from -T option in SYNOPSIS.


Revision tags: matt-mips64-base
# 1.53 23-Apr-2007 christos

branches: 1.53.4;
bump date.


# 1.52 23-Apr-2007 christos

PR/36194: Greg A. Woods: add a '-V' flag to pax for verbose summary without
listing (and other minor fixes)


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# 1.51 22-Aug-2006 christos

PR/34255: dieter roelants: Remove mention of -p f.


Revision tags: abandoned-netbsd-4-base
# 1.50 11-Sep-2005 wiz

Use better section header. Sort sections. From YOMURA Masanori in private mail.


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# 1.49 19-Jun-2004 christos

add -0 argument to handle nul separated file lists.


# 1.48 04-May-2004 grant

- remove an extraneous word
- it's "backward compatibility" not "backwards compatibility"


# 1.47 02-Apr-2004 keihan

Revert last, revision 1.46.


# 1.46 02-Apr-2004 keihan

".../newdir" --> "../newdir"


Revision tags: netbsd-2-0-base
# 1.45 13-Oct-2003 agc

branches: 1.45.2;
Move Keith Muller's code from a 4-clause to a 3-clause licence by removing
the advertising clause. Diffs provided in PR 22397 by Joel Baker, confirmed
to the board by Keith Muller.


# 1.44 07-Aug-2003 agc

Move UCB-licensed code from 4-clause to 3-clause licence.

Patches provided by Joel Baker in PR 22249, verified by myself.


# 1.43 19-Jul-2003 mrg

note -z is an extention.


# 1.42 01-May-2003 wiz

Some grammar and punctuation fixes from jmc@openbsd.


# 1.41 16-Apr-2003 wiz

Bump date for last.


# 1.40 31-Mar-2003 christos

PR/20495: Soren Jacobsen: Add -j [bzip2] compression to tar.


# 1.39 25-Feb-2003 wiz

.Nm does not need a dummy argument ("") before punctuation or
for correct formatting of the SYNOPSIS any longer.


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# 1.38 28-Dec-2002 wiz

Whitespace nits.


# 1.37 19-Dec-2002 kleink

Catch up with gen_subs.c rev. 1.27: the verbose output for symbolic links
is plain ls -l.


# 1.36 16-Oct-2002 christos

grr, I put these in the wrong spot.


# 1.35 16-Oct-2002 christos

Document the long options.


# 1.34 25-Sep-2002 wiz

New policy: New sentences start on a new line.
Patches by Robert Elz <kre at munnari oz au>, with minimal changes by me.


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# 1.33 21-Apr-2002 wiz

branches: 1.33.2;
End sentence with a dot.


# 1.32 20-Apr-2002 lukem

- Directories marked `optional' won't be stored, even though their
contents will be.
- Document that `optional' faked-up entries won't be created.


# 1.31 08-Feb-2002 ross

Generate <>& symbolically. I'm avoiding .../dist/... directories for now.


# 1.30 24-Jan-2002 lukem

Add '-N dbdir', to specify that user & group lookups (via pwcache(3)) are to
be done from dbdir/master.passwd and dbdir/group, using simple text file
parsing routines from ../../usr.sbin/mtree/getid.c.
This does not affect the -G and -U options, which always use the
system databases.


# 1.29 08-Nov-2001 hubertf

Add a second example for copying directory trees, this time as root
(using -pe, which also preserves ownership).

Proof-read by Perry.


# 1.28 07-Nov-2001 hubertf

* Fix example on how to copy a tree.
Noted in PR 14486 by Hiramatsu Yoshifumi <hiramatu@boreas.dti.ne.jp>
* In the same example, add flags to preserve permissions (-pp)


# 1.27 28-Oct-2001 wiz

Whitespace nits, sort sections, fix Dv usage (doesn't like macro argument).


# 1.26 25-Oct-2001 lukem

Implement -M flag: During a write or copy operation, treat the list of
files on standard input as an mtree(8) `specfile' specification, and
write or copy only those items in the specfile.

If the file exists in the underlying file system, its permissions and
modification time will be used unless specifically overridden by the
specfile. An error will be raised if the type of entry in the specfile
conflicts with that of an existing file.

Otherwise, it is necessary to specify at least the following parameters
in the specfile: type, mode, gname or gid, and uname or uid, device
(in the case of block or character devices), and link (in the case of
symbolic links). If time isn't provided, the current time will be used.


# 1.25 04-Sep-2000 kleink

Elaborate a bit on -t.


# 1.24 21-Aug-2000 tv

Work around a groff bug by splitting a long .Cm into two parts.


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# 1.23 30-Mar-2000 thorpej

Add a -O option: force one volume. This causes pax to not prompt for
a new volume upon premature end-of-volume (e.g. broken pipe). This is
especially useful in automated environments where error recovery cannot
be performed by a human.


Revision tags: wrstuden-devbsize-19991221 wrstuden-devbsize-base comdex-fall-1999-base
# 1.22 07-Nov-1999 mycroft

branches: 1.22.2;
Disable -pf for now, too.


# 1.21 01-Nov-1999 mrg

add a new -p subflag: 'f' to preserve 4.4BSD fileflags. this only
really works for `pax -rw' but that's where it is most useful.


# 1.20 26-Sep-1999 jdolecek

add SEE ALSO section, xref tar(1), cpio(1), symlink(7)


# 1.19 26-Sep-1999 enami

Don't emphasys punctuations.


# 1.18 24-Aug-1999 tron

branches: 1.18.2;
Strip leading slashes from filenames by default, add new "A" option to
disable this behaviour. Patches supplied by Peter Seebach in PR bin/8233.


Revision tags: netbsd-1-4-PATCH003 netbsd-1-4-PATCH002 netbsd-1-4-PATCH001 netbsd-1-4-RELEASE netbsd-1-4-base
# 1.17 22-Mar-1999 garbled

More and more .Os cleanups. .Os is defined in the tmac.doc-common file,
so we shouldn't override it with versions in the manpages. Many more to
come.


# 1.16 07-Mar-1999 mycroft

Do the previous is a slightly different way, to avoid .Po/.Pc.


# 1.15 07-Mar-1999 mycroft

Clean up embedded angle brackets for mdoc2html.


# 1.14 07-Mar-1999 mycroft

Finally get all of the highlighting correct in the -T argument.


# 1.13 07-Mar-1999 mycroft

Clean up SYNOPSIS formatting.


# 1.12 07-Mar-1999 mycroft

Fix formatting errors.


# 1.11 07-Mar-1999 mycroft

Use .Ns a bit.


# 1.10 07-Mar-1999 mycroft

Improve the formatting of the SYNOPSIS section.


# 1.9 02-Mar-1998 mrg

document pax -z. only 2 years late...


# 1.8 06-Feb-1998 perry

macroize BSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD and misc cleanup


# 1.7 21-Jan-1998 mycroft

Allow a century to be specified in time stamps.


Revision tags: netbsd-1-3-RELEASE netbsd-1-3-BETA netbsd-1-3-base
# 1.6 20-Oct-1997 enami

branches: 1.6.2;
Fix .Nm usage.


# 1.5 14-Sep-1997 lukem

* cleanup manpage
* getopt returns -1 not EOF
* deprecate register


# 1.4 18-Dec-1996 pk

Change misleading example to read `pax -v -f filename' which doesn't
extract files (Robert Dick; PR#3032)


Revision tags: netbsd-1-2-PATCH001 netbsd-1-2-RELEASE netbsd-1-2-BETA netbsd-1-2-base netbsd-1-1-PATCH001 netbsd-1-1-RELEASE netbsd-1-1-base
# 1.3 21-Mar-1995 cgd

convert to new RCS id conventions.


Revision tags: netbsd-1-0-PATCH06 netbsd-1-0-PATCH05 netbsd-1-0-PATCH04 netbsd-1-0-PATCH03 netbsd-1-0-PATCH02 netbsd-1-0-PATCH1 netbsd-1-0-PATCH0 netbsd-1-0-RELEASE netbsd-1-0-base
# 1.2 13-Jun-1994 jtc

Add RCS ID's


# 1.1 13-Jun-1994 jtc

branches: 1.1.1;
Initial revision