X-Git-Url: https://git.brokenzipper.com/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fsparse.texi;h=14a6ea4a16ae6cc98a70b99eb7b2cd248c16ecd8;hb=2a0037681629b20336eec663e5f48ee85313fc21;hp=1194357e289208bb6c93abbf47d5de5929dffb89;hpb=55abc110f57e77109f687bd62347fc2ce5ec0c5b;p=chaz%2Ftar diff --git a/doc/sparse.texi b/doc/sparse.texi index 1194357..14a6ea4 100644 --- a/doc/sparse.texi +++ b/doc/sparse.texi @@ -175,8 +175,9 @@ The real name of the sparse file is stored in the variable @code{GNU.sparse.name}. Thus, those @command{tar} implementations that are not aware of GNU extensions will at least extract the files into separate directories, giving the user a possibility to expand it -afterwards @FIXME-ref{how to extract sparse file using third-party -@command{tar}s}. +afterwards. @xref{extracting sparse v.0.x, Extraction of sparse +members in v.0.1 format}, for the detailed description of how to +restore such members using non-GNU @command{tar}s. The resulting @code{GNU.sparse.map} string can be @emph{very} long. Although POSIX does not impose any limit on the length of a @code{x}