diff --git a/types/tar-stream/index.d.ts b/types/tar-stream/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for tar-stream 1.6
+// Project: https://github.com/mafintosh/tar-stream
+// Definitions by: Guy Lichtman <https://github.com/glicht>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+// TypeScript Version: 2.6
+
+/// <reference types="node" />
+
+import stream = require('stream');
+
+export type Callback = (err?: Error | null) => any;
+
+// see https://github.com/mafintosh/tar-stream/blob/master/headers.js
+export interface Headers {
+    name: string;
+    mode?: number;
+    uid?: number;
+    gid?: number;
+    size?: number;
+    mtime?: Date;
+    linkname?: string | null;
+    type?: 'file' | 'link' | 'symlink' | 'character-device' | 'block-device' | 'directory' | 'fifo' |
+        'contiguous-file' | 'pax-header' | 'pax-global-header' | 'gnu-long-link-path' | 'gnu-long-path' | null;
+    uname?: string;
+    gname?: string;
+    devmajor?: number;
+    devminor?: number;
+}
+
+export interface Pack extends stream.Readable {
+    entry(headers: Headers, buffer?: string | Buffer | Callback, callback?: Callback): stream.Writable;
+    finalize(): void;
+}
+
+export interface Extract extends stream.Writable {
+    on(event: string, listener: (...args: any[]) => void): this;
+    on(event: "entry", listener: (headers: Headers, stream: stream.PassThrough, next: () => void ) => void): this;
+}
+
+export function extract(opts?: stream.WritableOptions): stream.Writable;
+
+export function pack(opts?: stream.ReadableOptions): Pack;
diff --git a/types/tar-stream/tar-stream-tests.ts b/types/tar-stream/tar-stream-tests.ts
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+import tar = require('tar-stream');
+
+const pack = tar.pack();
+
+// add a file called my-test.txt with the content "Hello World!"
+pack.entry({ name: 'my-test1.txt' }, 'Hello World!');
+
+// add a file called my-stream-test.txt from a stream
+const entry = pack.entry({ name: 'my-test2.txt', size: 11 }, (err) => {
+  // the stream was added
+  // no more entries
+  pack.finalize();
+});
+
+entry.write('hello');
+entry.write(' ');
+entry.write('world');
+entry.end();
+
+const extract = tar.extract();
+
+const entries: any = {};
+
+extract.on('entry', (header, stream, next) => {
+  // header is the tar header
+  // stream is the content body (might be an empty stream)
+  // call next when you are done with this entry
+  entries[header.name] = true;
+  stream.on('end', () => {
+    next();
+  });
+
+  stream.resume(); // just auto drain the stream
+});
+
+extract.on('finish', () => {
+  // all entries read
+  console.assert(entries['my-test1.txt'], "missing entry");
+  console.assert(entries['my-test2.txt'], "missing entry");
+  console.log("Found all entries in extract");
+});
+
+// pipe the pack stream
+pack.pipe(extract);
diff --git a/types/tar-stream/tsconfig.json b/types/tar-stream/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "tar-stream-tests.ts"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/types/tar-stream/tslint.json b/types/tar-stream/tslint.json
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+{ "extends": "dtslint/dt.json" }