Help: Tar Archives

[Nahuixtelotzin]

Please explain to a dumb person how to use those archives on Windows? Are they only designed for Unix? That would mean I made a completely useless 30MB download of Mozilla 1.3.1!

 

[Sodapop]

Tsk you shouldn't use windows in the first place At least it's mozilla

Recent versions of winzip are able to open tarballs. Probably lots of other compression program too. As a last resort, if you can't find anything (this won't happen, but I tell you anyway) there is surely a command-line program to untar them. But you won't need that.

And as my final question... Have you ever seen a program that was *NIX only and not ported to windows?

 

[Nahuixtelotzin]

Originally posted by Unknown soldier
Tsk you shouldn't use windows in the first place At least it's mozilla

I'm learning in babysteps

Recent versions of winzip are able to open tarballs. Probably lots of other compression program too. As a last resort, if you can't find anything (this won't happen, but I tell you anyway) there is surely a command-line program to untar them. But you won't need that.

Hm, my Winzip can't open it. In the Windows-Explorer the file appears with a WinAce icon, but when opening the file with it, WinAce shows an empty screen, me not being able to extract or open anything. WinAce works fine (though Evaluation period is over), I tried it with .rar archives.
"koh-mand-prograhm?"

And as my final question... Have you ever seen a program that was *NIX only and not ported to windows?

This is a trick question, isn't it?


Thanks for your answer at any rate, Wernazuma

 

[Sodapop]

WinZip brings the convenience of Windows to the use of Zip files and other compression formats. The optional wizard interface makes zipping and unzipping easier than ever. WinZip features built-in support for CAB files and for popular Internet file formats such as TAR, gzip, UUencode, BinHex, and MIME. ARJ, LZH, and ARC files are supported via external programs. WinZip interfaces to most virus scanners.

Try to download the very last version, maybe you're using some previous version. If they don't open directly from within winzip, and if winace can't open them, change the file association. Reinstalling winzip should do that if you don't want to play directly with the mimetypes in win explorer.

And the answer to the final question was no Or in the worst case, they are really really really rare, or useless...

 

[Nahuixtelotzin]

Hm, I changed the file association of tar archives in the win-explorer but when trying to open it still says "Error reading header after processing 0 entries". I doubt that it's a problem of Winzip, maybe the file is somehow corrupted.
Damn it, that would mean 30 MB on 56k for nothing.