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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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[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's like when .zip was popular I guess?

Tar.gz is a two step thingy too (maybe under the hood 7z is too) so the extraction process always seems long?

[–] nulluser@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 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.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Eh? 'tar xvf foo.tar.gz' is technically 2 steps I guess, but that's pretty well hidden from the user.