not support numeric user or group @acronym{ID}s, these fields should
be ignored.
-The @code{size} field is the size of the file in bytes; linked files
-are archived with this field specified as zero.
+The @code{size} field is the size of the file in bytes; for archive
+members that are symbolic or hard links to another file, this field
+is specified as zero.
The @code{mtime} field represents the data modification time of the file at
the time it was archived. It represents the integer number of
byte in the header is added to an unsigned integer, initialized to
zero, the precision of which shall be no less than seventeen bits.
When calculating the checksum, the @code{chksum} field is treated as
-if it were all blanks.
+if it were filled with spaces (ASCII 32).
The @code{typeflag} field specifies the type of file archived. If a
particular implementation does not recognize or permit the specified