<article lang="&language;" id="tar">
<title
>tar</title>
<articleinfo>
<authorgroup>
<author
>&Ferdinand.Gassauer; &Ferdinand.Gassauer.mail;</author>
<othercredit role="translator"
><firstname
>Malcolm</firstname
><surname
>Hunter</surname
><affiliation
><address
><email
>malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email
></address
></affiliation
><contrib
>Conversion to British English</contrib
></othercredit
> 
</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>