.tar archive format in windows

Making .tar files in windows to be uploaded on UNIX machine

[Mitch888]

Hi,
I have office xp computer and I need software that will allow me to compress my website files (on my windows computer) into a single .tar file to have it uploaded to my ISP UNIX hosting server? Anyone knows of such software that will run in windows environment and able to compress a folder contains multiple files into a single .tar extension? Or some other extension that I can decompress in UNIX from shell command?

Thank you

[marcs]

If your host has 'unzip' installed (very likely), you can use .zip files and extract them on the server by simply typing (from shell) :

unzip file.zip

Replace file.zip with your .zip file and make sure you are in the correct directory on the remote server before doing so.

[Mitch888]

waw, I love UNIX. you made my life this much easier, I thank you very much :)