MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2

pax(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities pax(1)
Message: write error on file "filename": system error
Cause: See syserror(3).
Action: See syserror(3).
PORTABILITY
POSIX.2. x/OPEN Portability Guide 4.0.
The –L, –q, –V, and –z options are extensions to the
POSIX standard.
MPE/iX NOTES
The current MPE/iX implementation of pax has the following limitations:
• It displays file owner names as 17 character fields and group names as 8 character fields.
• It converts non-byte stream files to byte stream files before archiving them. File charac-
teristics like file code, record size, and so forth are not preserved by this conversion.
When you extract files from the archive, they are written as a byte stream file.
• Because this release of MPE/iX does not provide the lstat() API, pax cannot return
information on the link itself. It attempts to determine when a symbolic link has been ref-
erenced, but can only return the information on the target of the link, rather than the link
itself.
For more information on how the current
MPE/iX implementation may affect the operation of
this utility, see Appendix A, MPE/iX Implementation Considerations.
SEE ALSO
compress(1), cpio(1), ls(1), tar(1), uncompress(1), cpio(2), pax(2), tar(2),
iconv(3)
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