Like a literal tar fire? Or a tar format archive fire? Or is that a California expression I'm not familiar with? Also this makes me have a sick curiosity if on

Like a literal tar fire? Or a tar format archive fire? Or is that a California expression I'm not familiar with? Also this makes me have a sick curiosity if one could have transpiled a whole Genera world to C with cfront or something then loaded it back in with Symbolics C and have it work?