short form of the name, "tape archive," the command to create a [tarball]. also a [tcllib] module for reading and writing tarballs. more to come here soon

''There's code to decode and unpack a tar file in the [SDX] starkit utility, unwrap and look at lib/app-sdx/tgz2kit.tcl, it's about 25 lines.'' - [jcw]

the sdx untar does not respect file permissions and owners, nor special files.

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[DKF]: Tar is also, and coincidentally, a black sticky substance that traps stuff that falls into it (e.g. the La Brea Tar Pits in LA). In computing, this brings on the term "a tar-pit project", which sucks in all effort that goes even close and swallows it all without trace. Avoid tar pits by using [Tcl/Tk]!
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