From 4cfa377cbadb3c2e40bd428eb8660174d4dc9735 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mathias Buus <mathiasbuus@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 12:04:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add ustar/pax comment. fixes #19

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 README.md | 3 +++
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@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ tar-stream is a streaming tar parser and generator and nothing else. It is strea
 
 tar-stream exposes two streams, [pack](https://github.com/mafintosh/tar-stream#packing) which creates tarballs and [extract](https://github.com/mafintosh/tar-stream#extracting) which extracts tarballs. To [modify an existing tarball](https://github.com/mafintosh/tar-stream#modifying-existing-tarballs) use both.
 
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+It implementes USTAR with additional support for pax extended headers. It should be compatible with all popular tar distributions out there (gnutar, bsdtar etc)
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 ## Related
 
 If you want to pack/unpack directories on the file system check out [tar-fs](https://github.com/mafintosh/tar-fs) which provides file system bindings to this module.