cl-tar-file
is a Common Lisp library that allows reading from and writing to various tar archive formats. Currently supported are the POSIX ustar, PAX (ustar with a few new entry types), GNU, and v7 (very old) formats.
This library is rather low level and is focused exclusively on reading and writing physical tar file entries using streams. Therefore, it contains no functionality for automatically building archives from a set of files on the filesystem or writing the contents of a file to the filesystem. Additionally, there are no smarts that read multiple physical entries and combine them into a single logical entry (e.g., with PAX extended headers or GNU long link/path name support). For a higher-level library that reads and writes logical entries, and also includes filesystem integration, see cl-tar
.