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#99973 08/10/04 08:22 AM
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lately all .tar files i have been downloading through mirc are courrupted. i open it with winrar or any other program and it says archive is corrupt.

#99974 08/10/04 08:31 AM
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What are you downloading? In my experience, every time someone mentions a .tar file and 'downloading', it's been a movie or some form of warez. mIRC isn't a file trading program, and we don't help with warez here just so you know.

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#99975 08/10/04 10:52 AM
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*.tar is the format linux/unix using instead off zip.. so if somone talking about *.tar files, i would guess its som type of file ment to be used in linux/unix .. maybe you Mentality ment *.rar ? that format is used to pack movies games..


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#99976 08/10/04 11:59 AM
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#99977 08/10/04 02:13 PM
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Ok, i personal never seen a movie tar'ed.. and if the game have been tar'ed it comes from a site for linux or unix.. and in 99% of the cases it have been free demos.. so i guess my misstake..


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#99978 08/10/04 03:11 PM
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.tar archives originated from UNIX but they're by no means unique to it. These days tarballs and gzipped tarballs are used across multiple platforms.


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