RE: Help! Windows XP won't unzip the .tar.tar or .tar.gz files!

[Peter Abbot]

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You dont need any special products. I remember seeing a note from something i downloaded a while ago that the IE automatically changes .gz to .tar or adds .tar to these kinds of downloads. All you need to do is rename the file to what it should be and then you can open/extract it in the normal way.   Pete    -----Original Message----- From: Peter Kryszkiewicz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 30 June 2003 4:26 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help! Windows XP won't unzip the .tar.tar or .tar.gz files! The tar.gz extension should have done it for you. It's a pretty old, established way to archive files (on Unix Platforms) And there are a few archiving utilities for Windows platforms that will recognize this too (Winzip is the most hi-profile of those).   If you've used your XP desktop Help and can't find the answer there, just downloading Winzip is the least painful way of solving your problem. Or do a quick search on your favourite search engine like I did just now; look at these links; http://www.gzip.org/ (check the FAQ section)   and a list of freeware, shareware and commercial archivers for Windows;   http://www.simtel.net/pub/winxp/compress/