* Standard:: Basic Tar Format
* Extensions:: @acronym{GNU} Extensions to the Archive Format
+* Sparse Formats:: Storing Sparse Files
* Snapshot Files::
* Dumpdir::
+Storing Sparse Files
+
+* Old GNU Format::
+* PAX 0:: PAX Format, Versions 0.0 and 0.1
+* PAX 1:: PAX Format, Version 1.0
+
Copying This Manual
* GNU Free Documentation License:: License for copying this manual
to note these differences, and only use the option style(s) which
makes the most sense to you until you feel comfortable with the others.
-Some options @emph{may} take an argument (currently, there are
-two such options: @option{--backup} and @option{--occurrence}). Such
-options may have at most long and short forms, they do not have old style
-equivalent. The rules for specifying an argument for such options
-are stricter than those for specifying mandatory arguments. Please,
-pay special attention to them.
+Some options @emph{may} take an argument. Such options may have at
+most long and short forms, they do not have old style equivalent. The
+rules for specifying an argument for such options are stricter than
+those for specifying mandatory arguments. Please, pay special
+attention to them.
@menu
* Long Options:: Long Option Style
@acronym{GNU} options. For now, it is an option needing to be specified on
the command line with the creation or updating of an archive.
-Files in the file system occasionally have ``holes.'' A hole in a file
+Files in the file system occasionally have @dfn{holes}. A @dfn{hole} in a file
is a section of the file's contents which was never written. The
contents of a hole read as all zeros. On many operating systems,
actual disk storage is not allocated for holes, but they are counted