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## About
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Derived originally from [minitar](https://github.com/genonullfree/minitar), this
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crate implements basic functionality for creating and extracting tar archives. It
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has been adapted to allow creation of a Node (Tar header + 512byte blocks of data)
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from the raw data plus file metadata. This allows for better efficiency when it
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is embedded into another application (such as a package manager), as the raw data
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and metadata about each file can be extracted once and reused for purposes such
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as generating checksums, getting file sizes and creating packing lists.
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