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Controlling the Archive Format
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Portability

Making `tar' Archives More Portable

Compression

Using Less Space through Compression

Attributes

Handling File Attributes

Standard

The Standard Format

Extensions

GNU Extensions to the Archive Format

cpio

Comparison of `tar' and `cpio'