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Erdrick Holmes
08-31-2004, 10:21 PM
What program opens a .tar? Not .rar but .tar?

crono_logical
08-31-2004, 11:00 PM
Winrar :monster:

Or use tar -xfjv filename.tar or some variation of switches from linux :p

Shoeberto
08-31-2004, 11:06 PM
WinRAR will open it. Though .tars are generally associated with Linux.

Dr Unne
08-31-2004, 11:09 PM
tar -xvf filename.tar will un-tar a tar file. The j flag to tar in Linux pipes a .tar.bz2 file through bunzip2. And I think the f flag has to come last, because tar looks for a filename as an argument to the f flag. x is for extract, v is for verbose, f is for filename.

Winzip should also open .tar files, from what I remember. Any archival program worth anything will be able to un-tar a tar file.

Erdrick Holmes
08-31-2004, 11:49 PM
Ok thanks. (isn't a Linux user... well not yet at least)