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Unix Tar Archive

Quick Info

The Unix Tar utility was originally written to store a file archive on magnetic tape (TAR = Tape ARchiver). But it can also create archive files, and this is what it's mostly used for. Tar archives are uncompressed. They store the files without coding them in any way. To create compressed archives, Tar files are often compressed into a GNU-Zip Archive.

Quick Info:

Name: Unix Tar Archive
Type: Archive
Extension: TAR
Native Application: Unix Tar (ported for DOS)
Specification: Included in the
Gnu Tar documentation
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