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  2. Right click on one or more Tar file(s) on your desktop and select Convert with Filestar.

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  4. Press Convert.
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What is the difference between .tar and .gzip?

Name
Consolidated Unix File Archive
GNU Compressed Archive
Extension
.tar
.gzip
Format
Binary
Binary
Category
Other
Compressed
Developer
Jean-loup Gailly
GNU
Description
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.
A compressed file format associated with GNU Zip (Gzip) that uses the DEFLATE compression algorithm, a combination of both the Huffman coding and the Lempel-Ziv (LZ77) codec.
MIME Type
application/x-tar
application/x-gzip
Sample
sample.tar
Wikipedia
.tar on Wikipedia
.gzip on Wikipedia

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