How to create tar.gz archive file in Windows?

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Shamas picture Shamas · May 27, 2012 · Viewed 115.1k times · Source

How to create tar.gz archive of my files in Windows to upload and extract in cPanel?

Answer

qwertyboy picture qwertyboy · May 27, 2012

tar.gz file is just a tar file that's been gzipped. Both tar and gzip are available for windows.

If you like GUIs (Graphical user interface), 7zip can pack with both tar and gzip.

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