>> So there _is_ a POSIX spec for tarchives? [...] > https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/pax.html#tag_20_92_13_06
I'll have to scare up a work machine to fetch that from, since apparently pubs.opengroup.org is not interested in serving content over HTTP. But that should be doable; work these days tends to inflict recent Linux on me, and, as unpleasant as I find that for most purposes, it does mean things like curl with HTTPS support. 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