# tar

&Ferdinand.Gassauer;
&tde-authors;
&tde-release-version;
Reviewed: &tde-release-date;
2010 &Ferdinand.Gassauer;
&tde-copyright-date; &tde-team;

This handbook describes the tar protocol.

TDE tar protocol

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.

Read the man page: tar.