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Date Links Size Edit summary
Diff · History 170 POSIX.1-2001/pax: +ref to 2004 year; etc.; update link to GNU manual
Diff · History 2,466 Restore section Uses that was removed in August 2020: this type of information is very often provided in Wikipedia for command-line tools; the putative policy "remove all examples of use" is not widely accepted as per common practice; the section is relatively brief, gives a first idea and it does not try to fully replicate manuals or manual pages
Diff · History 1,149 more EL for easier findability; +intro note about multiple formats to File format section; +Python tarfile; +abandonment also to history
Diff · History 4 Key implementations: "many types of tar files" --> "multiple types of tar files": e.g. GNU cpio supports two tar formats; FreeBSD cpio supports also two: pax and ustar
Diff · History -20 External links:
Diff · History 660 +"POSIX abandoned tar command in favor of pax command, yet tar sees continued widespread use."; +POSIX/SUS links and more man pages; etc.
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