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The tar archive format, and why GNU tar extracts in quadratic time.

I don't see how FLAC can be an established format when tar+gz is not. However, players for FLAC can be easily found also for Apple systems. > Apple products (iOS, Mac, Safari) do not natively support FLAC - quite possibly because Apple has its own lossless audio format, ALAC. Okay, so perhaps the author wasn't quite up to date with Windows?īut elsewhere the author says this about FLAC: says 'you'll also be able to extract files in formats in addition to.

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Thing is, 'BSD-tar has been included in Microsoft Windows since Windows 10 April 2018 Update' says (computing)#History and.

So, perhaps the author means the OS vendor must supply a tar implementation to be 'established'? In particular, the test suites now build and run on Windows' back in 2009 at - and that's only one of many ways to use tar on Windows. To double-check, libarchive's release notes mention 'Much improved Windows support, thanks largely to Michihiro NAKAJIMA. Point #3 strikes me as odd since there's been tar support on Windows for a long time (and vendor support from Apple since OS X). The file format is platform-independent, i.e., it enjoys support on Windows machines, Macs, and Unix-based systems. The file format is supported by several vendors (and not just by a single company). The file format has already been around for a long time. Thus, TAR+GZIP is not established in our sense.

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On non-Linux systems, additional software is required.

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