Instead of constantly making these updates, let's just remove the year
since things are stored in git anyways, and this is not an actual modern
legal risk anymore.
This makes tar archives from a list of files and/or directories. It
correctly includes empty directories as well. The code structure is
similar to the gzip resource. While this resource is arguably more
useful than gzip, it was invaluable to write the gzip resource first
since that made writing this one much easier.