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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