Working with Compressed Files on Windows

Files such as ".tar" are typically created on a Unix machine and represent Tarballs, created using the Tar archiving system, which is similar to the Zip archiving system on Windows.

To Extract Files from a Tar archive, you may go to 7 Zip, click Download for the 32 Bit 7 Zip 9.20.

Files such as ".7z" are actually created by 7 Zip, so need to be extracted using 7 Zip.

There are various compression schemes used with the Tar archiving system. For example, a ".tar.bz2" extension represents Tar archive and Bzip2 compression. If you know the appropriate command, you may be able to decompress the file directly from the Git command prompt:

tar -jxvf "/c/Users/Scott/Desktop/mscore-1.3.tar.bz2"

This post was reposted from http://scottizu.wordpress.com/2013/08/18/working-with-compressed-files-on-windows/, originally written on August 18th, 2013.