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Title: tar files?
Post by: princeofdarkness on April 15, 2004, 16:07

is there a program to open tar files or something? because i have some programs that are tar files..


thanx in advance Jonah

Title: Re:tar files?
Post by: Sandra on April 15, 2004, 16:40

Winrar and Winace do rars, tars and other compressed files have a look around for those programs  :)

Title: Re:tar files?
Post by: princeofdarkness on April 15, 2004, 16:44

i have winrar but how do i go about installing tar programs coz you open a tar file then theres about 50 more  ::)

do i extract them all to a folder?

i think i av done that b4 and it worked  :-\

Title: Re:tar files?
Post by: Sandra on April 15, 2004, 16:56

If its a multi rar or multi tar file then usually by opening the first rar or tar it will extract all the others too.
I usually make a folder and extract the lowest numbered rar or tar into it and it will then unpack the rest of them as the instructions are embedded in that first file.
I assume that its a large program or a film file ?
You may end up with a cue and a bin file at the end of the unpacking process.
Get back to us if you cant get it to work properly  :)

Title: Re:tar files?
Post by: princeofdarkness on April 15, 2004, 17:05

ok well i am not doing it til i get back to my house on monday