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authorkientzle <kientzle@FreeBSD.org>2006-07-29 23:51:10 +0000
committerkientzle <kientzle@FreeBSD.org>2006-07-29 23:51:10 +0000
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Don't mention 'pax' in the context of POSIX-1988, since
pax wasn't introduced until the 1993 (?) revision. (I need to double-check when pax was introduced and clarify some of the history here. In particular, I should explain that the 'pax' standard now owns the 'ustar' format spec.)
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diff --git a/lib/libarchive/tar.5 b/lib/libarchive/tar.5
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@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ the size and mtime fields must end in a space;
the checksum is terminated by a null and a space.
Early implementations filled the numeric fields with leading spaces.
This seems to have been common practice until the
-.St -p1003.1
+.St -p1003.1-88
standard was released.
For best portability, modern implementations should fill the numeric
fields with leading zeros.
@@ -183,9 +183,7 @@ the 100 characters of old-style archives.
.St -p1003.1-88
defined a standard tar file format to be read and written
by compliant implementations of
-.Xr tar 1
-and
-.Xr pax 1 .
+.Xr tar 1 .
This format is often called the
.Dq ustar
format, after the magic value used
@@ -722,7 +720,8 @@ program from First Edition Unix.
John Gilmore's
.Nm pdtar
public-domain implementation (circa 1987) was highly influential
-and formed the basis of GNU tar.
+and formed the basis of
+.Nm GNU tar .
Joerg Shilling's
.Nm star
archiver is another open-source (GPL) archiver (originally developed
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