Re: tar and paxutils?

[François Pinard]

[Bruno Haible]

> POSIX:2001 specifies a utility called "pax" that promises to be a good
> interchange format for files whose names contain non-ASCII characters.
> What's the status of it in GNU?  The older paxutils-2.4h from Francois
> Pinard has a "pax" but without i18n feature.  The newer tar-1.13.25 has no
> "pax" at all.

Hi, Bruno and Paul.

I fully transmitted `paxutils' to Paul Eggert, including all administrative
and development files, a long while ago.  Once Paul told me he had these
safely, I deleted my copies, to make sure I would resist the temptation of
interfering :-).  What happens or does not happen is the choice of Paul.

-- 
François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard