# Reading tarsnap's Code \[wiki\]

**URL:** <https://pluralist.net/t/reading-tarsnaps-code-wiki/29>\
**Category:** Code Reading\
**Tags:** tarsnap, c\
**Created:** [January 10, 2024, 4:52pm UTC](https://pluralist.net/t/reading-tarsnaps-code-wiki/29 "2024-01-10T16:52:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![delyan](https://pluralist.net/user_avatar/pluralist.net/delyan/32/245_2.png) [@delyan](https://pluralist.net/u/delyan)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 4:52pm UTC](https://pluralist.net/t/reading-tarsnaps-code-wiki/29/1 "2024-01-10T16:52:13Z")

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(this is an experiment with the **wiki** format of Discourse posts)

Tarsnap is an amazing minimalist tool for archiving your digital assets in the cloud. The authors, [Colin Percival](https://github.com/cperciva) and [Graham Percival](https://github.com/gperciva), are highly revered C programmers and system hackers. Let’s read the code they’ve written to learn how to write exceptional C.

The tarsnap client, per the authors, is [**readable source, but not “open source”**](https://www.tarsnap.com/open-source.html). The client source code is [published on GitHub](https://github.com/Tarsnap/tarsnap) and is available for us to explore and learn from.

This is a wiki that can be edited by anyone!