invocation.
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-In previous versions of @acronym{GNU} @command{tar}, the
-@samp{--compress-block} option (or even older:
-@samp{--block-compress}) was necessary to reblock compressed archives.
-It is now a dummy option just asking not to be used, and otherwise
-ignored. If the output goes directly to a local disk, and not through
+If the output goes directly to a local disk, and not through
stdout, then the last write is not extended to a full record size.
Otherwise, reblocking occurs. Here are a few other remarks on this
topic: