The format doesn't
feature native data compression, so TAR archives are often compressed
with an external utility like, but not only,
GZip
and
BZip2
and similar software to reduce archive's size
before distribution.
PeaZip, freeware, 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...).
See notes below for hints about using PeaZip as extractor to untar TAR
files, as well as to create TAR files; those suggestions apply to all
most common ways TAR archives can be found:
- TAR
- TAR.BZ
- TAR.GZ
- TBZ2
- TGZ
- TZ, etc...
Note
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 (untar) it.
To extract TAR files from its compressed form, and to extract files
from TAR archive, you can:
