How the fuck do I view/extract a tar file?
 

A host sent me a site backup in tar format. ..tried winzip etc but get nothing or garble :disgust

Get winrar I think you can find it at rarlabs.com if not search for it. Just make sure when you install it, and open it, it associates with .tar files (it should by default).

winrar :thumbsup

I've been using the trial edition for about a year now

I tried everything except winrar lol thanks :thumbsup

Winrar should be on every guys computer, you will use but that when you have it :)

Baby Oil helps remove tar.

If you want to just untar it to another server (unix/linux) use:

tar -xvf filename

if it has a gzip extension use

gzip -d filename.tar.gz;tar -xvf filename.tar

BMF

tar -xzf *.tar.gz

http://www.7-zip.org/ instead of WinRAR

Can you not use winzip?

You can do it with winrar from here:

http://dwhsdownload.com/

i don't use anything but winrar for file compression, it has all the popular formats

i don't understand people that still use winzip, that program is such shit

winrar rocks, but you can also rename it to .zip and open it with Winzip (unless I'm confusing .tar with .jar extentions)

tar -xvf filename.tar

if it's .tar.gz, just run this first:

gunzip filename.tar.gz