decompressing tar.gz

how to?

[adni18]

I need to decompress a .tar file on my pc and turn it into a zip file or a regular folder. how can i do this?

[claus]

Google winRAR and/or WinAce. They will probably both do it.

[dmorison]

I think tar and certainly gzip are in GnuWin32 (Sourceforge).

The usual command is just:

tar zxvf filename.tar.gz

...but i'm not sure if tar on Win32 will know how to gunzip; so just do it in 2 steps:

gzip -d filename.tar.gz

tar xvf filename.tar

[bumpaw]

7-Zip will upack those tar balls and it's open source.