The tar archives in this directory have been obtained from here: https://github.com/mgorny/tar-test-inputs git commit hash a2110a6 This repository was linked in the following article on interoperability of various different tar programs: https://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/articles/portability-of-tar-features.html The original intention of the example archives was to test various tar programs for interoperability with each others extensions and format quirks. The following have been removed since there is no intention in adding support for those features: - volume-label tests - multi-volume tests - longe user + group names - sun tar samples - star samples In addition to that, the files in "file-size" are truncated, since we are only interested in parsing the header.