>> It appears to be specifying pax's behaviour, not tar's. [...] > POSIX used to specify tar, long ago, but there were (as I understand > it) too many incompat variants, so it was dropped.
Not entirely surprising. > You should have been expecting that as the link you were given ended > in pax.html#some-tag-or-other Yes, I noticed that...after the fact. I got the file, thank you! /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B