Tar is a common file format for archives in Linux- and Unix-based operating systems. These types of files are typically used to back up files and directories or to transfer files and programs over a ...

Georgetown University is set to divest from companies whose primary business involves the extraction of tar sands, according to a June 7 news release from the university. At the June meeting of the ...

Last year, we witnessed a pivotal moment when President Obama rejected the Keystone XL pipeline, making good on his repeated observations that tar sands projects are not in our national interest ...

Researchers find that pollutants in Canada's Athabasca River are not from natural sources. You have full access to this article via your institution. Oil-mining operations in Canada's main tar sands ...

I have a 2 Gig tar file, "myfile.tar", that normally takes about 2 minutes to completely untar all of it's contents. However, in a seperate scenario, if I try to extract just one file from "myfile.tar ...

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Enbridge Pipelines (Illinois) LLC is demanding eminent domain authority for the condemnation of land from over 500 Illinois residents to carry synthetic crude oil derived from the Alberta tar sands ...

This is stupid but I have no choice, what I have is single folder with 6 subdirs full of files. What I need to do create a tar file and slap this tar file into an RPM so when the RPM runs it takes the ...

Here’s a funny expression for you: “green tar sands.” You will be forgiven if you assume that the only way tar sands could be green would be if you mixed in a healthy dose of food dye and/or were ...