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From: ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
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Subject: Re: tar
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Date: 23 Apr 89 00:22:37 GMT
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In article <22299@dhw68k.cts.com> allan@dhw68k.cts.com (Alan Perry) writes:
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>Is there a document that describes tar format?  If so, what is that document?

Unfortunately there is no longer one tar format. On 4.3 BSD man 5 tar will
give you details of the format.  GNU tar documentation gives a detailed
description of the format(s).