Re: [Bug-tar] xsparse number format

2018-02-15 Thread Sergey Poznyakoff
Hi Richard, > 2. the spec is wrong Thanks for pointing that out. The description is wrong, indeed. All numbers are stored in decimal. I'll fix the docs. Regards, Sergey

[Bug-tar] xsparse number format

2018-02-14 Thread Richard Johnson
You have a tool called xsparse (https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/utils/xsparse.html) that is used to expand sparse files stored in GNU tar format. The spec given https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/PAX-1.html#SEC193 Says that “The sparse map itself is stored in the file data