Can you help me understand the different file compression formats? It seems like there are a ton out there (zip, gzip, bzip1, tar, rar, 7z, etc.), but what are the differences between them, and which ...

I've run into a rash of tar.gz files on the internet today that are not actually gzipped. People seem to be just tarring things and then renaming them tar.gz! This of course makes it difficult to ...

Windows 11 users won't have to download third-party software to open TAR, 7-ZIP, RAR, GZ, and other archive formats soon. Microsoft has announced that it is using the open-source libarchive ...

Tar, 7-zip, rar, gz, and more will all be supported in a Windows 11 update. Tar, 7-zip, rar, gz, and more will all be supported in a Windows 11 update. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who ...