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tar [n]
 
1)any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
    Synonyms :pitch 
    See Also: bitumen  coal_tar 
 
2)a man who serves as a sailor
    Synonyms :gob jack jack-tar mariner old_salt sea_dog seafarer seaman 
    See Also: crewman  able-bodied_seaman  bo's'n  deckhand  helmsman  bargee  officer  pilot  sea_lawyer  whaler 
 
tar [v]
 
1)coat with tar; "tar the roof"; "tar the roads"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: coat  pitch 
 

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

("Tape ARchive", following ar) Unix's general purpose archive utility and the file format it uses. Tar was originally intended for use with magnetic tape but, though it has several command line options related to tape, it is now used more often for packaging files together on other media, e.g. for distribution via the Internet.

The resulting archive, a "tar file" (humourously, "tarball") is often compressed, using gzip or some other form of compression (see tar and feather).

There is a GNU version of tar called gnutar with several improvements over the standard versions.

Filename extension: .tar

MIME type: unregistered, but commonly application/x-tar

Unix manual page: tar(1).

Compare shar, zip.

(1998-05-02)



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