- supporting GNU.sparse.* keywords will extract each sparse file in its condensed
- form with the file map attached and will place it into a separate directory.
- Then, using a simple program it would be possible to expand the file to its
- original form even without GNU tar.
-
- Bu default, v.1.0 archives are created. To use other formats, --sparse-version
- option is provided. Additionally, v.0.0 can be obtained by deleting GNU.sparse.map
- from 0.1 format: --sparse-version 0.1 --pax-option delete=GNU.sparse.map
+ supporting GNU.sparse.* keywords will extract each sparse file in its
+ condensed form with the file map attached and will place it into a separate
+ directory. Then, using a simple program it would be possible to expand the
+ file to its original form even without GNU tar.
+
+ Bu default, v.1.0 archives are created. To use other formats,
+ --sparse-version option is provided. Additionally, v.0.0 can be obtained
+ by deleting GNU.sparse.map from 0.1 format: --sparse-version 0.1
+ --pax-option delete=GNU.sparse.map