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<title>tar</title>
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<author>&Ferdinand.Gassauer; &Ferdinand.Gassauer.mail;</author>
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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.
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<para> See the manual: <ulink url="man:/tar">tar</ulink>.
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