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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.