When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Most people are probably pretty familiar with creating, sending or receiving Zip files. Zip takes ...

The TAR, or Tape Archive, file format was developed to simplify the process of storing and distributing multiple Unix operating system files. TAR files are uncompressed archives with the ".tar" file ...

You need to package up a bunch of files, send them somewhere, and do something with them at the destination. It isn’t an uncommon scenario. The obvious answer is to create an archive — a zip or tar ...