What's a good tar utility for Windows?
I use Cygwin regularly, but I have a need these days to extract tar.gz and tar.bz2 files on other people's Windows machines. They don't want Cygwin; they need a GUI. I've tried 7-zip, which some other people in our company were using, but 7-zip makes the braindead decision to require you to first uncompress a file to a new destination file, then untar the file, thus wasting time and disk space, and requiring extra actions on my part. And there's other things I don't like about its interface.
I just received a new Windows workstation and decided to try out the ZipGenius software the powers that be decided to provide with it, but it doesn't even handle tar.gz files.
Any suggestions on a better tool?
Answer
7-Zip allows you to double click the file inside its file manager and explore it, so you can double click the tar.bz and get the tar, and double click again to get the files inside.