to a new TarFileSet (or returns it unchanged if
 it already is a TarFileSet).</div>
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<td class="colFirst"><code>protected boolean</code></td>
<td class="colLast"><code><strong><a href="../../../../../org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Tar.html#check(java.io.File, java.lang.String[])">check</a></strong>(java.io.File&nbsp;basedir,
     java.lang.String[]&nbsp;files)</code>
<div class="block">Checks whether the archive is out-of-date with respect to the
 given files, ensures that th