tar: Other Tars
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1 8.3.10 How to Extract GNU-Specific Data Using Other 'tar' Implementations
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1 In previous sections you became acquainted with various quirks necessary
1 to make your archives portable. Sometimes you may need to extract
1 archives containing GNU-specific members using some third-party 'tar'
1 implementation or an older version of GNU 'tar'. Of course your best
1 bet is to have GNU 'tar' installed, but if it is for some reason
1 impossible, this section will explain how to cope without it.
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1 When we speak about "GNU-specific" members we mean two classes of
1 them: members split between the volumes of a multi-volume archive and
1 sparse members. You will be able to always recover such members if the
1 archive is in PAX format. In addition split members can be recovered
1 from archives in old GNU format. The following subsections describe the
1 required procedures in detail.
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