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nikos
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 Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 8:26 am Post subject: TAR archives in xplorer2 |
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I found this http://www.viksoe.dk/code/tarfolder.htm
it enables TAR files in xplorer2 just like the native zipfolder support!
but it requires windows vista or later |
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FrizzleFry
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| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 10:44 am Post subject: |
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| This would be more interesting if it supported compressed tar archives. |
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nikos
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| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 12:07 pm Post subject: |
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| what do you mean, isn't TAR a compression format? |
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FrizzleFry
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| Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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No. tar just groups many files into an archive but with no compression. Typically you would then compress the tar file. Unix includes a compression tool (whose name I cannot remember now... compress?) that produces a compressed file with a .z extension. The GNU zip program (gzip) which adds the gz extension is very popular. So you have
something.tar.z
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something.tar.gz
a "tar ball"
Most Linux distros use tar ball packages.
The web page specifically says that the extension only works with uncompressed tar files. |
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nikos
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| Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:20 am Post subject: |
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well, that's a not-so-useful extension then  |
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