<?xml version="1.0" ?> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook XML V4.2-Based Variant V1.1//EN" "dtd/kdex.dtd" [ <!ENTITY % addindex "IGNORE"> <!ENTITY % English "INCLUDE" > <!-- change language only here --> ]> <article lang="&language;" id="tar"> <title>tar</title> <articleinfo> <authorgroup> <author>&Ferdinand.Gassauer;</author> <author>&tde-authors;</author> <!-- TRANS:ROLES_OF_TRANSLATORS --> </authorgroup> <releaseinfo>&tde-release-version;</releaseinfo> <date>Reviewed: &tde-release-date;</date> <copyright> <year>2010</year> <holder>&Ferdinand.Gassauer;</holder> </copyright> <copyright> <year>&tde-copyright-date;</year> <holder>&tde-team;</holder> </copyright> <abstract> <para> This handbook describes the tar protocol. </para> </abstract> <keywordset> <keyword>TDE</keyword> <keyword>tar</keyword> <keyword>protocol</keyword> </keywordset> </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>Read the man page: <ulink url="man:/tar">tar</ulink>. </para> </article>