Timwi wrote in gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical:
Kate Turner wrote:
the pax format is standard, but it's not widely used
Why do you have to use it if it's so poorly supported?
i was unable to find any documentation on the file format that GNU tar uses (see my previous messages to the list). Zip was suggested as an alternative, which is probably the most widely supported archive format. if pax turns out to be too unwieldy, it may be worth using that instead.
kate.