| tar ("Tape ARchive", following ) 's general purpose utility and the file format it uses. Tar was originally intended for use with but, though it has several related to tape, it is now used more often for packaging files together on other media, e.g. for distribution via the . The resulting archive, a "tar file" (humourously, "tarball") is often compressed, using or some other form of compression (see ). There is a version of tar called with several improvements over the standard versions. : .tar : unregistered, but commonly application/x-tar : tar(1). Compare , . (1998-05-02) |
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