Tar

Widely used in the UNIX world are also tar archives, because tar is a part of each UNIX implementation. Tar means ``tape archive'' and is mostly used to store directory trees into a single file, e. g. on magnetic tape. Data compression is not performed. However, you still have the opportunity to compress the generated tar file with the compress program (chapter [*], page [*]).

Arcgsh works togehther with GNUTAR zusammen, a free tar version, which is also available for the ST.

Here a short description of the most important functions:


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