Tar Archive

TAR

• Format Type : Archive
  
• Endian Order : Little Endian
  

Format Specifications

// For Each File

char {100}   - Filename

char {8}     - Mode

char {8}     - UID

char {8}     - GID

char {12}    - File Length

char {12}    - Last Modification Time

char {8}     - Checksum

char {1}     - Link Flag

char {100}   - Linked Filename

char {8}     - Magic Number

char {32}    - uName

char {32}    - gName

char {8}     - Major Version Number

char {8}     - Minor Version Number

byte {167}   - null Padding to make this file header have length 512

byte {X}     - File Data

byte {0-511} - null Padding to a multiple of 512 bytes

MultiEx BMS

Not written yet

Notes and Comments

• Generic TAR archive
  
• All fields are null-terminated strings
• The fields are also padded to the right, meaning that there is padding of (byte)32 at the start of each field, so that the entire contents of that field are as far to the right as possible for that field length
• Fields that contain a number (such as the File Length) are Octal numbers (base 8)

Supported Programs

• Game Extractor
  
• Many standard file compressors/decompressors