Windows support for tar and bzip2

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Does Windows' most common zip programs have support of tar and bzip2
these days? I noticed zip files are 3 times bigger. Ick. Also is .tbz
an acceptable suffix for .tar.bzip2 files?

T.

 

[James Britt]

Does Windows' most common zip programs have support of tar and bzip2
these days? I noticed zip files are 3 times bigger. Ick. Also is .tbz
an acceptable suffix for .tar.bzip2 files?

winzip knows about taz, gzip, and tgz.

I had to install a separate app for bzip2.

I have no idea if any application would know what to do with .tbz if is
not already a reasonably common extension (along the lines of .tgz or .gz).

James

 

[James Britt]

WinRAR is better, knows more formats, handles things smarter (e.g., it
shows contents of a .tgz as a tree of folders, not as a flat thing a la
mainframes of old age) and has a better interface (less mouse clicks for
the usual things). It is even notably faster, even for zip files.

Thanks; I'll try it out.

James

 

[Lyndon Samson]

WinRAR is better, knows more formats, handles things smarter (e.g., it
shows contents of a .tgz as a tree of folders, not as a flat thing a la
mainframes of old age) and has a better interface (less mouse clicks for
the usual things). It is even notably faster, even for zip files.

Thats the worst thing about it. The tree view is fine if you are
going to spend alot of time in the archive poking around like you
would in a filesystem. But mostly when I open an archive I just want
to see all the files, sorted by name, director or maybe size and
extract all or view a single file.

How do you quickly find a readme in WinRAR?
How do you quickly find the largest ( sometimes most interesting )
file in WinRAR?

 

[Kent Sibilev]

Thats the worst thing about it. The tree view is fine if you are
going to spend alot of time in the archive poking around like you
would in a filesystem. But mostly when I open an archive I just want
to see all the files, sorted by name, director or maybe size and
extract all or view a single file.

How do you quickly find a readme in WinRAR?
How do you quickly find the largest ( sometimes most interesting )
file in WinRAR?

There's a 'Flat folders view' in WinRar activated by Ctrl-H.

Cheers,
Kent.

 

[Belorion]

One of the first things I install on my WinXP system is always
UnxUtils (http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/), a win32 port of many of
*nix's handy command line tools. tar, gzip, ls, grep, cat, tail, etc.

 

[Henrik Horneber]

One of the first things I install on my WinXP system is always
UnxUtils (http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/), a win32 port of many of
*nix's handy command line tools. tar, gzip, ls, grep, cat, tail, etc.

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ is a similar project

But I don't think one should expect regular windows users to happily
download and install these extra tools