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<sect2>
<title>Contents</title>

<para>The tar package contains the tar and rmt programs.</para>

</sect2>

<sect2><title>Description</title>

<sect3><title>tar</title>

<para>tar is an archiving program designed to store and extract files from
an archive file known as a tar file.</para>

</sect3>

<sect3><title>rmt</title>

<para>rmt is a program used by the remote dump and restore programs in 
manipulating a magnetic tape drive through an interprocess communication
connection.</para>

</sect3>

</sect2>