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Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library (www.techspot.com)
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Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats thanks to open-source library::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pro tip: Tar knows what to do if you try to untar a tar.gz file. It Just Works(tm).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So do zip files lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes but can winzip do tape backups.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you use tape backups for?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Nirvana bootlegs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I know, and it's only useful rarely as if you can extract directly to the target, you don't need to have an intermediate copy (or do intermediate copying). Really nitpicking ofc.