[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: tar 0.3.0.0

[John Goerzen]

Duncan Coutts wrote:
> All,
> 
> I'm pleased to announce a major new release of the tar package for
> handling ".tar" archive files.

Very nice!

I'm curious -- what specific variants of the tar format can it read and
write?

 * PAX?
 * GNU tar sparse files?
 * POSIX ustar
 * various pre-posix archives?
 * Solaris tar?
 * Binary and text numbers in numeric fields?

-- John
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