[Sheflug] pax / tar

[Alan Dawson <aland [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm trying to get my head around the differences between pax and tar.

I've looked at the man pages and feel more confused now.  And whats "The GNU
folks, in general, abhor  man  pages,  and  create info  documents instead. " 
all about.

In particular I'm trying to unpack an archive using tar from tomsrtbt  - which
isn't GNU tar but a wrapper for pax.  Unfortuately for me the archive I'm trying
to unpack says use 
tar --numeric-owner -xvzf file.tar.gz

and tomsrtbt tar doesn't have the --numeric-owner option

I can't get my head around what --numeric-owner actually does and which pax
setting reproduces that. 

Any help

AED
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