Comment 3 for bug 456405

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ruario (e-launchpad-ruari-com) wrote :

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.