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| author | kientzle <kientzle@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-07-29 23:51:10 +0000 |
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| committer | kientzle <kientzle@FreeBSD.org> | 2006-07-29 23:51:10 +0000 |
| commit | 61dd143cfb0a5bd3bf9dc7304f3f4126ae2e5acd (patch) | |
| tree | 9727034f3dae7a445288c6e3c9b9535887ea2523 /lib | |
| parent | f75d25bafc28604058b40bb0239a979e5d8c04dc (diff) | |
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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.)
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libarchive/tar.5 | 9 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libarchive/tar.5 b/lib/libarchive/tar.5 index 242a3d0..e194a7d 100644 --- a/lib/libarchive/tar.5 +++ b/lib/libarchive/tar.5 @@ -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 |
