TAR
is a
popular archiving format, mainstream for backup and distribution
purpouse on Unix and Unix-like systems.
The format doesn't
feature native data compression, so TAR
archives are often compressed with external utilities like, but not
only,
GZip and
BZip2, to reduce archive's size before
distribution.
PeaZip, both in Windows and Linux systems, can
open, test and extract
TAR and compressed TAR files (TGZ, .TAR.GZ, TBZ2 etc...) and can
create TAR files, uncompressed or
compressed with any featured compression format (7Z, BZ2, GZ, LPAQ, PAQ
etc...).
To extract one or more files supported through 7Z frontend (7Z, RAR,
TAR,
ZIP and more) you can:
- Use context menu entry "- Extract archive(s) here"
- Use context menu entry "- Extract archive(s) to" to
be asked for output path
- Open it in PeaZip and use
"Extract all" button (you can chose output
path in "I/O" tab) or "Extract all to" to be asked for output path
- Open it in PeaZip and
doubleclick on an archived file to preview it
- Open it in PeaZip,
rightclick and use PeaZip's context menu to extract or preview selected
objects
Opening a compressed TAR file, i.e. a TGZ or TBZ file, PeaZip will show
the underlying TAR archive as content of the compressed file; you can
then doubleclick on the TAR archive in PeaZip to launch another
instance of the program which will browse the actual TAR archive's
content.
Otherwise you can simply extract the TAR archive and then open
it with PeaZip again if you actually need to unpack it.
