8.3.7 GNU 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.

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