Re: tar vs device special files

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>> It appears to be specifying pax's behaviour, not tar's.  [...]
> POSIX used to specify tar, long ago, but there were (as I understand
> it) too many incompat variants, so it was dropped.

Not entirely surprising.

> You should have been expecting that as the link you were given ended
> in pax.html#some-tag-or-other

Yes, I noticed that...after the fact.

I got the file, thank you!

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