Directory of tar Resources

Home > Computers > Data Formats > Archive > tar

tar (from Tape ARchive) is an archive file format. File are produced by the Unix command tar and were standardized by POSIX.1-1998 and later POSIX.1-2001. It is used to collate collections of files into one larger file, while preserving file system information.

Resources in This Category

• Format of tar Archives

  http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man4/tar.4.asp
  Description of the tar format.

• GNU tar

  http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/
  Software to create tar archives. Introduction, download, and manual. [GNU GPL]

• Wikipedia: Tar (file format)

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(file_format)
  Encyclopedia article about the archive file format.

 

Home > Computers > Data Formats > Archive > tar

 

---

 

Thanks to DMOZ, which built a great web directory for nearly two decades and freely shared it with the web. About us