Perhaps worth looking at the pax provided by the The Heirloom Toolchest <http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/tools.html> as an alternative? This claims to be POSIX.1-2001/SUSV3 compliant and is under Open Source licenses.
I complied it up locally and "pax -x pax -f test.tar somefile" seems to work as expected.
Perhaps worth looking at the pax provided by the The Heirloom Toolchest <http:// heirloom. sourceforge. net/tools. html> as an alternative? This claims to be POSIX.1-2001/SUSV3 compliant and is under Open Source licenses.
I complied it up locally and "pax -x pax -f test.tar somefile" seems to work as expected.