.tar

[Erdrick Holmes]

What program opens a .tar? Not .rar but .tar?

[crono_logical]

Winrar

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

[Shoeberto]

WinRAR will open it. Though .tars are generally associated with Linux.

[Dr Unne]

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]

Ok thanks. (isn't a Linux user... well not yet at least)