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                      3: pax                          Command                          pax
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                      8: Portable archive interchange
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                     11: ppaaxx is  an archiving utility  that reads and writes  ttaarr and ccppiioo
                     12: formats,  both  the traditional  ones  and  the extended  formats
                     13: specified  in  IEEE  document  1003.1.   It handles  multi-volume
                     14: archives and  automatically determines  the format  of an archive
                     15: while reading it.
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                     17: ppaaxx supports  three user interfaces: ttaarr, ccppiioo,  and ppaaxx. The ppaaxx
                     18: interface was  designed by  IEEE  1003.2  as a compromise  in the
                     19: chronic  controversy over  which of  ttaarr  or  ccppiioo  interfaces is
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                     22: ***** See Also *****
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                     24: ccoommmmaannddss, ccppiioo, ttaarr, uussttaarr
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                     26: ***** Notes *****
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                     28: To avoid confusion with the traditional COHERENT ttaarr command, the
                     29: ttaarr command distributed with ppaaxx is renamed uussttaarr.
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                     31: See the compressed  ttaarr archive /uussrr/ssrrcc/aalliieenn/ppaaxx.ttaarr.ZZ for full
                     32: documentation on ppaaxx, ccppiioo, and uussttaarr.
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                     34: ***** Copyright Information *****
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                     36: Copyright (c) 1989 by Mark H. Colburn.  All rights reserved.
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                     38: ppaaxx was developed by Mark  H. Colburn and sponsored by The USENIX
                     39: Association.   It is  provided in binary  form per  the licensing
                     40: terms set forth by the author.  See file /uussrr/ssrrcc/aalliieenn/ppaaxx.ttaarr.ZZ
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