Re: Backward compatibility

[Paul Eggert]

On 2/26/21 6:53 AM, Stephen Boswell wrote:
> I have written tapes using tar 1.26 on tape server with 
> centos-release-7-4.1708.el7.centos.x86_64
>
> My client has tar version 1.23 and cannot extract tarball’s.  Any solution?

I'm surprised, as I just now created a tar archive with tar 1.26 and 
extracted it with tar 1.23, and there was no problem.

I expect we'll need more details to know what the issue is. It might 
have nothing to do with the tar version.