Working with Tar Archive
Learn about the .tar file format, providing APIs for handling tar archives, and working with individual entries in the tar archive.
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The .tar files
A file with the extension .tar has been created using the Unix-based archival application tar. A file with the extension .tar.gz has been created using tar and then compressed using the GZIP compression algorithm.
System.Formats.Tar assembly
.NET 7 introduces the System.Formats.Tar assembly, which has APIs for reading, writing, archiving, and extracting tar archives. The TarFile class has static public members, as shown in the following table:
Member | Description |
| Create a tar stream containing all the filesystem entries from the specified directory. |
| Extracts the contents of a stream that represents a tar archive into the specified directory. |
| Windows’ MAX_PATH (260) is used as an arbitrary default capacity. |