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Sergey Poznyakoff
2006-06-27 13:39:20 +00:00
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@@ -175,8 +175,9 @@ The real name of the sparse file is stored in the variable
@code{GNU.sparse.name}. Thus, those @command{tar} implementations
that are not aware of GNU extensions will at least extract the files
into separate directories, giving the user a possibility to expand it
afterwards @FIXME-ref{how to extract sparse file using third-party
@command{tar}s}.
afterwards. @xref{extracting sparse v.0.x, Extraction of sparse
members in v.0.1 format}, for the detailed description of how to
restore such members using non-GNU @command{tar}s.
The resulting @code{GNU.sparse.map} string can be @emph{very} long.
Although POSIX does not impose any limit on the length of a @code{x}