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bombayboy
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_ 		25. February 2005 @ 10:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
what is a TAR file ? and why do most game downloads coem in them?
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Rotary
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_ 		25. February 2005 @ 10:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
hi

its a format of compression, as you say download makes it smaller...

like WinZIP or winrar etc...
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bazilla
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_ 		25. February 2005 @ 11:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Tar is short for "tape archive" and is a file archive format found on Unix/Linux operating systems. What kind of games are these? It would be surprising to find games for the Windows OS packaged with them.
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Sir-Age
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_ 		25. February 2005 @ 11:46 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
open them with WinRar
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_ 		25. February 2005 @ 16:27 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I find this site helpful when I don't know what a file extension is....
http://filext.com/
File Extension Source
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bbmayo
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_ 		25. February 2005 @ 17:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hey we think alike Zippy :-0
Thats scary!!!

TAR files are generally not compressed; simply added together into a single file. Most programs that will handle .ZIP or other archive formats will also handle .TAR files.

That is from the sight Zippy mentioned above :-)
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_ 		26. February 2005 @ 00:34 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
How can I extract a tar.gz or .tgz file?
Files with extension tar.gz or .tgz are tar files compressed with gzip. On Unix extract them with:
gunzip < file.tar.gz | tar xvf -
gunzip < file.tgz | tar xvf -



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bbmayo
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_ 		26. February 2005 @ 00:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
WinZip will open them also :-)
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