Tar is a common file format for archives in Linux- and Unix-based operating systems. These types of files are typically used to back up files and directories or to transfer files and programs over a ...

I have a 2 Gig tar file, "myfile.tar", that normally takes about 2 minutes to completely untar all of it's contents. However, in a seperate scenario, if I try to extract just one file from "myfile.tar ...

I don't have much experience in this area, but I have some data that was sent to me that was archived as a tar file on a DDS2 tape from a SCO-UNIX box. I have a DDS4 tape drive and want to move the ...

Systems administrators have been building Apache servers from source for decades. For most of them, the routine is the same — download a compressed tar file, extract its contents and run through the ...

Android smartphones and tablets don't naturally support ZIP, RAR, or TAR formats. Luckily, there are several workarounds and apps that can help with this issue enabling you to read files in these ...

ChromeOS is now more powerful for managing files, with new support for archive formats like 7z, iso, and tar — with more on the way. Last July, we were first to report that Google was working on a new ...