<article lang="&language;" id="tar"> <title >tar</title> <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>