The tar -Tape ARchive- format originates from the very first Unix. It's an archiving format that doesn't compress anything, it just stores files and directories into a file structure (Acorn has extended this by allowing real-time interaction with the archive when they created the ImageFS concept). A routine action on Unix when a directory is stored in a tar file is to gzip it. Many sites on the Internet, especially universities, have gzipped tar archives. Spark, SparkPlug and SparkFS can read (but not write) gzip and tar files. Tar (Frank Lancaster) is a freeware that can read/write tar archives.
MIME type: application/x-tar
See also PackdDir
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