GNU tar helpfully ignores a leading slash in archived file paths - so \data\pages\t1.txt will be extracted into .\data\pages\t1.txt - unless -P is used to explicitly disable this.
Unxutils tar, although it has some other GNU tar features, doesn't have this one.
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Quick
- ($a, $b....) = unpack("A2A7...", $packed)
- push( array, list )
