How to archive several files with tar?

[B.J SNOOPY, LATROBE UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA.]

Hi,
    I am having a  great deal of difficulty  trying to tar a group of text
files to a single file.  I have read the manual entries on this, but can't
make any sense  of them.  I would greatly  appreciate it if  someone would
help me out here..

                                           Thanks.

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