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by myng111 1455 days ago
Did 7zip not support tar files before? Or is POSIX tar a particular standard that was not previously supported?
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da_chicken 1455 days ago
It has had supported tar archives as long as I can remember.

It's not had the best support for them, though, since it wouldn't always let you access the list of files in an archived tar. You often had to extract the tar to do that.

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chupasaurus 1455 days ago
Particularly pax (aka extended tar) format wasn't previously supported.
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