A Short Look On The TAR File Format
TAR files are very unique in as much as the way they are compressed. We have the basic way in extracting data from a TAR file, but there are a lot of ways in having a file “tarred”. With each unique way of tarring files, there can also be a lot of ways in extracting files from them. The basic concept of tar balls (or tar files with the compressed files inside them) is tarring the files and then compressing it and then distributing it via an external source.