Tape ARchive format. More...

Collaboration diagram for TAR:

Data Structures
struct	tar_header
	Header located at the beginning of each file in the archive. More...

struct	tar_node
	Represents a file (or dir, etc ...) inside a TAR archive's file tree. More...

struct	tar_filesystem
	Filesystem dependant data for a TAR archive. More...

Macros
#define	TAR_FILENAME_SIZE 100
	Pathname length inside a TAR format is limited to 99 characters (size includes the NULL terminating byte)

#define	TAR_HEADER_SIZE 512
	Each file gets a header that is padded up to 512 bytes (and is aligned on a 512 bytes boundary)

Detailed Description

Tape ARchive format.

It is a common general-purpose archive format, with tools to generate such archives available on every OS.