.TAR File Extension
Are you having difficulty opening a file that ends with .TAR? Such files can be executed only by certain programs. If you cannot open the .TAR file, it can be due to the following reasons: either you do not have an appropriate program to open it, or your file association is corrupted. For more information about this extension, please read the article below.
What is a .TAR file?
.TAR file belongs to the category of Data Files used in operating systems such as Windows 11, 10, Windows 7, Windows 8 / 8.1, Windows Vista, Windows XP.
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.TAR file is associated with Consolidated Unix File Archive developed by Jean-loup Gailly, has a Binary Format and belongs to Data Files category.
A TAR file is considered an archive created by tar (a Unix utility) to pack files for backup and distribution. It contains files saved in an uncompressed format with metadata on the archive. TAR files are often compressed into .GZ files using GNU Zip compression.
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The TAR format and tar utility debuted back in 1979 for writing data to tape drives (storage devices) that read and write data to magnetic tape.
Modern computers use the TAR format on Unix and Linux systems to merge multiple files into one. TAR archives are valuable for backing up and transferring multiple files to other locations.
Users can compress TAR files to reduce their size. TAR archives that have been compressed thanks to GNU Zip are converted to GZ, .TAR.GZ, or .TGZ files.
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