Pax

File Format
Name	pax
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Archiving pax
Extension(s)	.pax

pax (Portable aRchive eXchange) is an uncompressed archive file format, and a multi-format archiving utility. The file format is rare, and some versions of the pax utility do not support it.

Specifications

• Format of pax archives

Links

• Wikipedia article (mostly about the pax utility)
• pax man page, from a version of pax that supports pax format