| | The TarArchive class implements the concept of a 'Tape Archive'. A tar archive is a series of entries, each of which represents a file system object. Each entry in the archive consists of a header block followed by 0 or more data blocks. Directory entries consist only of the header block, and are followed by entries for the directory's contents. File entries consist of a header followed by the number of blocks needed to contain the file's contents. All entries are written on block boundaries. Blocks are 512 bytes long. More...
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