Thanks tom.
I always saw the option in 7zip to compress stuff as a tar file, but
wondered what it was sinse it's a format I've never encountered before sinse
as you said, most windows stuff is mostly zip. I've also seen a lot of rar,
some 7z and the odd iso, but never tar.
Glad to know what it actually is.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 11:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] weird extension
Hi Dark and all,
The program for creating tar files is simply called tar. Its an open
source command line tool that usually ships with Linux, FreeBSD, and
other open source operating systems by default. As a result tar is
more widely used on non-Windows operating systems like Linux where zip
is most commonly used on Windows PCs. To create a tar file on Linux
open a terminal window and type something like
"tar -cvf my_file.tar directory_name"
and it will pack that directory into a tar archive.
Cheers!
On 8/10/12, dark <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Al.
.tar is a compression format similar to rar. I'm not sure what program is
supposed to deal with them, but 7zip from http://www.7zip.com/ can do
them,
(indeed 7zip can do most things as far as compression goes which is why
it's
my favourite unzipping program), though it's not a type I've seen much.
If it really is .tar.tar, then no idea. Maybe it's a file type that
deletes
your entire hard drive, so you will be saying tar tar to your computer
:d.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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