Quote:
Originally Posted by Nate the great
Tar is just a compression format. Most any Linux computer will be able to extract the contents. I'm pretty sure that on a Windows machine WinRar can also decompress it.
I have a copy, and the content is just web pages.
|
Actually, tar in itself doesn't compress anything, it is just able to archive a bunch of files into a single file (or tarball) while preserving directory structure, permissions and stuff.
It was originaly intended for backup purposes and is short for Tape ARchiver (tar), it has become the defacto file archiving system for *nix systemes, and is usually used in conjunction with Gzip or Bzip2 to handle the compression of the tarball.