Create a .tar file in windows?

[BigJimbo]

basically for my java class the teacher wants everything submitted in .tar format. Ive been told that winrar can do the compression...but i cant seem to figure it out?

 

[Cheetah8799]

why .tar? That's mostly used in Linux/Unix? Are you working on Linux servers or something? .zip is a really common format, and most any Linux server can compress/decompress it... If I were you, I'd maybe ask the teacher what the deal is behind this...

Anyway, in winrar, when creating a new archive, it only seems to allow .rar or .zip. I know it'll decompress .tar, but maybe it can't create them?

EDIT: tar really isn't a compression, more of a package. It puts the files together and keeps the file permissions and ownership in tact. Usually linux source files are .tar.gz, which means the gzipped the tarball package to compress it, because the tarball really isn't compressed/shrunk at all.

 

[Navid]

Originally posted by: BigJimbo
basically for my java class the teacher wants everything submitted in .tar format. Ive been told that winrar can do the compression...but i cant seem to figure it out?

I just searched and found this. Give it a try.
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/tar.htm

 

[MrChad]

Does your class have a Unix cluster you can FTP/Telnet/SSH into? Just upload your files and tar them there. That's what I would do in college.

 

[BigJimbo]

i dont know why he wants them in a tar file.....i couldnt figure it out last week and just zipped them.

I found a sweet program which is freeware and blows winRAR out of the water from what i have seen so far... Called IZArc

http://www.izsoft.dir.bg/download.htm