> I guess that's the big question: what *is* the tar magic that I'm > according to /usr/share/misc/magic gnu tar archives contain the magic "ustar". however, i found, that it's not at the beginning of the archive. the archive starts with the name of the first archived file/directory padded with a bunch of zeroes.
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