Standardization, Reception and Popularity
Despite being standardized in 2001 by IEEE, as of 2010, pax enjoys relatively little popularity and penetration rate.
pax is required to be present in all conformant systems by Linux Standard Base since version 3.0 (released on July 6, 2005), but so far few Linux distributions ship and install it by default. However, most distributions include pax as a separately installable package.
pax has also been present in Windows NT, where it is limited to file archives (tapes not supported). It was later moved to the Interix subsystem. It does not support archiving or restoring Win32 ACLs.
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