pax is the name of the 4.4BSD replacement for tar; the program itself
can read and write a bunch of formats (variations on the tar and the
cpio format), but writes POSIX tar by default, according to the pax
manpage on a FreeBSD box.
try using 'file' to see what format it's in, and either GNU tar or
GNU cpio to extract it... if not, you can always dig a copy of the
pax sources from some BSD archive, but it could be a bit of a pain to
compile under Linux because of the BSD'ish makefile templates it would
most likely use.
why anyone would distribute linux sources as ".pax" instead of ".tar"
is quite beyond me, though :)
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