Forums General Discussion Trouble with File Decoding

A friend of mine sent me a file and he encoded it in .tar format. I was just wondering what i could use to decode it so I can play it I'd ask him, but he just went on vacation and I really want to see it! Thanks

Files ending in a .tar extension are standard Unix TAR archives. The TAR archive format is an aggregation of a single or multiple files into a single archive, typically preserving the file dates, permissions and ownerships of each individual file or directory.

They're basically like a .ZIP file, except TAR archives are not inherently compressed.

You can untar a file by typing 'tar -xvf filename.tar' (in Unix) or by using Winzip (Windows)

thanks a lot, that helped a bunch...had no idea it would be that easy...I sorta assumed I had winzip installed, but I just reinstalled windows, so I just hadn't gotten to it yet. When I saw that nothing was recognizing the .tar file, I figured I needed some help. Thanks again!