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Re:The cpio trailer problem (2018) by lboc on Monday July 20, 2020 @02:02AM (#23895060)
It sees some use in z/OS. For example, open source tarballs aren't generally EBCDIC, so:

pax -rvf automake-1.16.tar -o from=ISO8859-1,to=IBM-1047

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