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tar
and POSIX tar
Starting from version 1.14 GNU tar
features full support for
POSIX.1-2001 archives.
A POSIX conformant archive will be created if tar
was given --format=posix (--format=pax) option. No
special option is required to read and extract from a POSIX
archive.