tar archive format

[lwv27 at CAS.BITNET]

As opposed to the moderator, my first response would be - did you try the
manual pages?  In specific, try:

man -k tar

which tells man to do a keyword search for man page entries dealing with
the string of characters 'tar'.  I found a tar man page in section 5 which
should get one started.

The problem with using the GNU source and man pages is that there is no
guarantee that what it describes is completely compatible with what is
being used by /bin/tar - it might be a superset of traditional tar.

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