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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
+  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
+  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
+  %general-entities;
+]>
+
+<sect1 id="ch-system-tar" role="wrap">
+  <?dbhtml filename="tar.html"?>
+
+  <sect1info condition="script">
+    <productname>tar</productname>
+    <productnumber>&tar-version;</productnumber>
+    <address>&tar-url;</address>
+  </sect1info>
+
+  <title>Tar-&tar-version;</title>
+
+  <indexterm zone="ch-system-tar">
+    <primary sortas="a-Tar">Tar</primary>
+  </indexterm>
+
+  <sect2 role="package">
+    <title/>
+
+    <para>The Tar package provides the ability to create tar archives as well
+    as perform various other kinds of archive manipulation.  Tar can be used on
+    previously created archives to extract files, to store additional files, or
+    to update or list files which were already stored. </para>
+
+    <segmentedlist>
+      <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
+      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
+
+      <seglistitem>
+        <seg>&tar-fin-sbu;</seg>
+        <seg>&tar-fin-du;</seg>
+      </seglistitem>
+    </segmentedlist>
+
+  </sect2>
+
+  <sect2 role="installation">
+    <title>Installation of Tar</title>
+
+    <para>Prepare Tar for compilation:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1  \
+./configure --prefix=/usr \
+            --bindir=/bin</userinput></screen>
+
+    <variablelist>
+      <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><envar>FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1</envar></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This forces the test for <function>mknod</function> to be run
+          as root.  It is generally considered dangerous to run this test as
+          the root user, but as it is being run on a system that has only been
+          partially built, overriding it is OK.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+    </variablelist>
+
+    <para>Compile the package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>To test the results (about 3 SBU), issue:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
+
+<!-- Seems to pass for version 1.31. Keeping as a comment just in case...
+    <para>One test, link mismatch, is known to fail.</para>
+-->
+
+    <para>Install the package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="install">make install
+make -C doc install-html docdir=/usr/share/doc/tar-&tar-version;</userinput></screen>
+
+  </sect2>
+
+
+  <sect2 id="contents-tar" role="content">
+    <title>Contents of Tar</title>
+
+    <segmentedlist>
+      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
+      <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
+
+      <seglistitem>
+        <seg>tar</seg>
+        <seg>/usr/share/doc/tar-&tar-version;</seg>
+      </seglistitem>
+    </segmentedlist>
+
+    <variablelist>
+      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
+      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
+      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
+
+      <varlistentry id="tar">
+        <term><command>tar</command></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>Creates, extracts files from, and lists the contents of archives,
+          also known as tarballs</para>
+          <indexterm zone="ch-system-tar tar">
+            <primary sortas="b-tar">tar</primary>
+          </indexterm>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+    </variablelist>
+
+  </sect2>
+
+</sect1>