7zip is a freeware program that will open gz, tar and I think even rar files.
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Bstaggs
On Feb 10, 2012, at 3:47 PM, "Greg" <gholwell60@...> wrote:
> I notice that a user on one of my Yahoo groups just posted a file with the
> extension "tar.gz". As a Linux user I know what it is, it is an archive of
> files with the tar utility compressed with the gzip utility. (I also know from
> personal use that bzip2 creates smaller files and can be distinguished by the
> ".bz2" suffix.) However I do not know if Windows XP can open this as a
> compressed file. I also know that ".rar" is not supported by my Windows
> zip-file-building utility WinZip. (I used Windows as it was needed by my 2
> Yamaha PC sound cards, the DS-XG aka YMF724 and the SW60XG.) That is why I
> always use ".zip", it is the most common archiving+compression format.
>
> [Subject changed to OT by list moderator]
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