Package org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.tar

Provides stream classes for reading and writing archives using the TAR format.

See: Description

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
TarConstants	This interface contains all the definitions used in the package.

Class Summary

Class	Description
TarArchiveEntry	This class represents an entry in a Tar archive.
TarArchiveInputStream	The TarInputStream reads a UNIX tar archive as an InputStream.
TarArchiveOutputStream	The TarOutputStream writes a UNIX tar archive as an OutputStream.
TarArchiveSparseEntry	This class represents a sparse entry in a Tar archive.
TarUtils	This class provides static utility methods to work with byte streams.

Package org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.tar Description

Provides stream classes for reading and writing archives using the TAR format.

There are many different format dialects that call themselves TAR. The classes of this package can read and write archives in the traditional pre-POSIX ustar format and support GNU specific extensions for long filenames that GNU tar itself by now refers to as oldgnu.