<article lang="&language;" id="tar"> <title>tar</title> <articleinfo> <authorgroup> <author>&Ferdinand.Gassauer; &Ferdinand.Gassauer.mail;</author> <!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS --> </authorgroup> </articleinfo> <para> An archiving program designed to store and extract files from an archive file known as a tarfile. A tarfile may be made on a tape drive, however, it is also common to write a tarfile to a normal file. </para> <para> See the manual: <ulink url="man:/tar">tar</ulink>. </para> </article>