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by yjftsjthsd-h 16 days ago
Yeah, I'm leaning towards strongly preferring bsdtar since it's happy to work on e.g. zip files:) Does it have any real downsides?
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Limits on the length of path and file names in the archive.

Edit: I see that they switched from ustar to pax as the default format in OpenBSD 7.6, so I guess this isn't true any longer.