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[krikri]

what is meant by .tar , tar.gz and tar.bz files etc. How do you open them? How do you edit them?

[divaone]

my compression/decompression program of choice is winrar for zipped, gunzipped and tarred packages.

[shasan]

Are you familiar with Winzip and zip files?

.tar is like a zip file, but the program used for compression is called Tar (not winzip).

.gz is also a compressed file, compressed by a program called Gunzip

.tar.gz usually means that some files were compressed using Tar and the compressed AGAIN using gunzip to make the compressed file smaller.

You can use either WinRAR or WinZip to look at these files (WinRAR is better for tar and gz files).

you can get WinRAR at www.rarlab.com

Winzip you can get at www.winzip.com.

I'm not sure myself what .bz is, but it's probably also a way of compressing files.