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paxmirabilis (based on paxtar), is an implementation of an archiving
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utility that reads and writes several formats -- traditional ones, the
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extended formats specified in IEEE 1003.1, and the ar(5) format used by
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deb(5) packages (MirBSD specific paxtar extension). The pax interface
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was designed by IEEE 1003.2 as a compromise in the chronic controversy
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over which of tar or cpio is best, but this implementation offers
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paxcpio and paxtar for easy calling.
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This software is developed as part of The MirOS Project, in the form of
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one of the portable subprojects, similar to mksh. It is now the default
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pax implementation in Debian GNU/Linux.
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