tar: tar (archiving utility) tar: tar: This is the GNU version of tar, an archiving program designed to store tar: and extract files from an archive file known as a tarfile. A tarfile tar: may be made on a tape drive, however, it is also common to write a tar: tarfile to a normal file. tar: tar: Slackware's package system uses tarfiles compressed with bzip2, gzip, tar: lzip, or xz. tar: tar: