Convert hxi to tar

Download and install the latest version of Filestar.
Right click on one or more Hxi file(s) on your desktop and select Convert with Filestar.
Type convert to tar in the search box.
Press Convert.

Or let an AI agent do it: filestarcli -i file.hxi -c "convert to tar" (how).

Let your AI agent convert HXI to TAR

Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents can do this on your computer with Filestar. Your files stay on your machine.

Install Filestar and add it to your agents:

npm install -g filestar
filestarcli agent install

Or add it in one click:

Claude Code:

claude mcp add filestar -- npx -y [email protected] mcp

Then ask your agent:

“Convert the HXI files in my Downloads folder to TAR”

Or run it yourself:

filestarcli -i file.hxi -c "convert to tar"

Runs on your computer, so your files stay on it. Works on Windows, macOS and Linux. 50 free conversions with the npm install, no account needed.

Can my AI agent convert HXI to TAR?

Yes. Install the Filestar CLI with npm install -g filestar and your agent can run filestarcli -i file.hxi -c "convert to tar" on your computer, so your files stay on it.

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What is the difference between .hxi and .tar?

Name: HXI Microsoft Help File; Consolidated Unix File Archive
Extension: .hxi; .tar
Format: Binary; Binary
Category: Developer; Other
Developer: Microsoft; Jean-loup Gailly
Description: Microsoft Help 2.x is a proprietary format for online help files, developed by Microsoft and first released in 2001 as a help system for Visual Studio .NET (2002) and MSDN Library.; Tar archive created by tar, a Unix-based utility used to package files together; contains multiple files stored in an uncompressed format; commonly compressed into a .GZ file using GNU Zip compression.
MIME Type: application/vnd.ms-help; application/x-tar
Sample: sample.tar
Wikipedia: .hxi on Wikipedia; .tar on Wikipedia

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