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De-archiving ZGip'ed Tar Archives on PCs


All the Archives in "Anthony's Icon Library" and "Anthonys WWW Images" are in the GZip Tar archive format. This format is the accepted archiving format on FTP and WWW sites for Main frame users.

Why? well the reasons are complex but to put it simply...
GZip Tar Archives are smaller.

For the complex reasons why this is so I refer you to "GZip Tar - vs - Zip, Archives".

Disclaimer: I am NOT a Windows user, and never really likes the restricted enviorment provided by it. I prefer the more free form environment of UNIX and X Windows, and now Linux. I use to do my work from a Sun Color Desktop Workstation, but have now moved to SuSE Linux, then later to Redhat Linux running on a PC with huge 1600x120 pixel display.

If any of the information provided, is wrong, incorrect, or you would like to add another choice, mail me. Otherwise I do not really want to know about PCs and their problems. ;-)

PC users can still de-archive the "Gzip'ed Tar" (.tar.gz or .tgz suffixes) by using the following archive programs, or getting the source to both the GZip compression program and a Tar Archive Program from...
  • The PC Windows Shareware program "WinZip" can also de-archive GZip'ed Tar files as well as the normal PC Zip Archives.

    NOTE: The file downloaded is xxxx.tar.gz but the pc saves it as xxxx.tar, which winzip can't handle. It must be renamed to xxxx.gz and opened in winzip. Then winzip will ask for the actual name of the file archived within, and will recognize the begining part of the file name. Then, all one must do is tack on .tar and winzip can then open the archive.

  • The program source for "GZip" (a compression program, not an archiver) and a unix tar archiver "GTar" is available in the gnu source area on your nearest major FTP site (Such as Washington Uni FTP Archive

  • PC users can find both GZip and a Tar archive extractor DeTar or even a full tar archiver Tar binaries from the SimTel PC archive mirrors on all the major ftp sites around the world (look under msdos, or simtel sub-directories).

  • OS/2 Users can use, GTar and GZip from the hobbes FTP archive.

    • Created: 29 January 1997
    Updated: 3 Feburary 1997
    Anthony Thyssen, <anthony@cit.gu.edu.au>