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Re:The Hardest Tarball? by JdeBP on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:12PM (#50444828)
There's a prominent tar implementation missing. paxmirabilis is tar, cpio, and pax all in one, as a multiple-call binary. It's what one gets as pax in Debian, in fact.

* https://mbsd.evolvis.org/pax.htm

* https://manpages.debian.org/trixie/pax/index.html

No, it's not libarchive's bsdtar. There's more than 1 tar in the BSD world.

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