A pax file extension is related to PAX archiving utility. A pax file stores archive.
There are 3 other file types using
the PAX file extension!
.pax - Personal Ancestral File data file
.pax - PickAx secure graphic file
.pax - VCOMP lossless compressed general purpose data file
Software that open pax file
PAX file extension - PAX archive
What is pax file? How to open pax files?
File type specification:
The pax file extension is used by PAX, an archiving utility developed by POSIX with aim to create interchange format between TAR and CPIO.
But default the program creates tar archives, however they sometimes can be renamed to PAX.
Updated: February 17, 2023
The default software associated to open pax file:
Company or developer:
Igor Pavlov
A free file archiver developed by Igor Pavlov featuring higher compression ratios with LZMA and LZMA2 compression.
It is mainly available for Windows platform (for Mac and Linux are available command line tools) and is the primary program to handle 7z archives. However, also supports various compression file formats.
Supported formats:
Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM
Unpacking only: AR, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DMG, EXT, FAT, GPT, HFS, IHEX, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, QCOW2, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, UEFI, VDI, VHD, VMDK, WIM, XAR and Z
List of software applications associated to the .pax file extension
Recommended software programs are sorted by OS platform (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android etc.)
and possible program actions that can be done with the file: like open pax file, edit pax file, convert pax file, view pax file, play pax file etc. (if exist software for corresponding action in File-Extensions.org's database).
Hint:
Click on the tab below to simply browse between the application actions, to quickly get a list of recommended software, which is able to perform the specified software action, such as opening, editing or converting pax files.
Software that open pax file - PAX archive
Programs supporting the exension pax on the main platforms Windows, Mac, Linux or mobile. Click on the link to get more information about listed programs for open pax file action.
