Gregory Fraser <Gregory.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Per Winzip 8.1's help file > > 'TAR stands for "Tape ARchive". The TAR format does not provide > compression; it is used only to group files. > > Its mostly used in the Linux world. I used to have an un-user > friendly program to extract .TAR files but I can't remember where I > found it or what it was called. However, since its in .TAR format I > really doubt it would work in Windows. Winzip will read and extract files from tar files, actually. And the format predates linux considerably; it's a standard Unix format (linux being one of the current threads of the Unix family). -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b@xxxxxxxx>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns-nomoney.com/> <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/> <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>
