how extract tar.gx files in windows

[actorj]

what program to use, where to get it?

 

[ExoWorks]

if its tar.gz use winzip....

 

[niv]

FYI, tar.gz distrobutions are meant for installations on UNIX machines.

 

[actorj]

hmm, typo, yes, I meant tar.gz


And yes, I know they are meant for installation on unix machines, and that is where I will install it, but I first need to open the file on my windows machine.......

 

[cheatpark]

I think tar.gz files can also be opened with winace.

 

[ExoWorks]

i think it can also be done with zip archiever..

 

[niv]

If it's going to be on a unix machine, there's absolutely no point in untarring it on nothing other than the local filesystem. If you don't have SSH access but have access to perl:

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
system("tar xzvf file.tar.gz");

Just replace file.tar.gz with the filename, and make sure you can execute this in the directory with the gzip tar.

 

[msn]

Powerarchiever

 

[maelzx]

winzip can handle it well

 

[actorj]

i got an error the first time i tried to open in in winzip, but strangley i tried it again just now and it worked.

 

[redemption]

like msn said, PowerArchiver is a very good archiving utility... do a quick search for it on google...

and yeah i know you got it done but i decided to post anyway becos i find PowerArchiver very useful on windows when i want to make tar.gz or tar.bz2 files