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@@ -175,8 +175,9 @@ The real name of the sparse file is stored in the variable
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@code{GNU.sparse.name}. Thus, those @command{tar} implementations
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that are not aware of GNU extensions will at least extract the files
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into separate directories, giving the user a possibility to expand it
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-afterwards @FIXME-ref{how to extract sparse file using third-party
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-@command{tar}s}.
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+afterwards. @xref{extracting sparse v.0.x, Extraction of sparse
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+members in v.0.1 format}, for the detailed description of how to
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+restore such members using non-GNU @command{tar}s.
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The resulting @code{GNU.sparse.map} string can be @emph{very} long.
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Although POSIX does not impose any limit on the length of a @code{x}
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