Untar
Uncompression and unarchiving tool for Mac OS X
Version 1.2.1
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| About |
In the "old days" of UNIX, compressing/uncompressing and archiving/unarchiving files involved cryptic commands such as tar -xvf somefile.tar. However, since those days, the masses have come to use computers, and they expect an easy to use system with graphical elements and interaction. The days of the command-line interface are distant, and expecting the average user to resort to those older methods is normally out of the question. This is where Untar steps in.
Untar is a wrapper application which acts as the front end to the tar, gzip, compress, bzip2, and zip UNIX utilities. These traditional UNIX utilities handle the complicated work, while Untar provides a pleasant and easy method to interact with the system tools.
Untar is able to uncompress files in .tar, .tar.gz, .dmg.gz, .gz, .tgz, .tar.z, .z, .Z, .tar.Z, .taz, .bz, .bz2, and .zip formats.
Untar is available as a free download for Mac OS X users. Source code is also included for the interested developer.
New Features
- Console log
- Support for svgz and rar files
- bzip2 and zip fully supported for Mac OS 10.1
- Check for product updates
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| Updates |
- Untar 1.3 is under development and should be released in the early part of 2005.
- New features in Untar 1.3
- Support for new file formats such as svgz, tbz, and rar
- Full Mac OS 10.3 compatability
- Zip and bzip2 support for all versions of Mac OS X
- A console log to display detailed information of what's going on in the background
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| Version History |
Version 1.2.1 - Released 10. November 2003
Several small errors were corrected where notification message boxes would appear at incorrect times.
Version 1.2.0 - Released 19. October 2003
Additional support for .taz, .bz, .bz2, and .zip file formats.
Opens up Disk Copy automatically after uncompressing a .dmg.gz file.
Help System added.
Modified user interface.
Version 1.1.0 - Released 5. January 2003
Improved icon.
Now supports .z, .Z, .tar.z, and .tar.Z file formats.
Version 1.0.1 - Released 9. September 2002
Same functionality as the original version. Internal code was modified and optimized. Source code and project files were included with this release.
Version 1.0.0 - Released 2. September 2002
Original version released.
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| System Requirements |
Recommended
Platform: Mac OS 10.2
Available RAM: 5 MB
Disk space: Less than 1 MB
Other: Developer Tools installed
Minimum
Platform: Mac OS 10.1
Available RAM: 5 MB
Disk space: Less than 1 MB
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