.tar file

The tar program provides the ability to create tar archives, as well as various other kinds of manipulation. If you don't have this installed in your unit, then it is useless to read any downloaded .tar files.

You can try opening it with winzip. Winzip should be able to open tar files.

to extract the files from a .tar archive, on a linux/unix system, you can use the following command:

tar xvf filename.tar

if the file is with a .tgz extension, you can use instead the following command:

tar zxvf filename.tgz

or, if it doesn't work, you can try:

gzip -cd filename.tgz | tar xvf -

bye,

marco.

Win RAR should be able to open these files for you. If you use a dual boot system, you can open the file with the command

tar -xvf

if the file has has the extension filename.tar.gz
use the command:

tar -zxvf filename .tar.gz

Open the file in Linux, and copy it over to your windows partition. Then you can read it using a Windows app.

cheers Jim

if you have winzip, it should open the file

www.winzip.com for a trial version

use command:
tar

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