Untar 1.3.1 review

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In the "old days" of UNIX, compressing/uncompressing and archiving/unarchiving files involved cryptic commands such as tar -xvf somefile.

License:	Freeware
OS:	Mac OS X
File size:	1549K
Developer:	Edenwaith
Price:	$0.00
Updated:	20 Jun 2006

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 a variety of UNIX utilities, such as tar, gzip, bzip2, rar, and zip.

Untar is able to uncompress files in .tar, .tar.gz, .tgz, .tar.z, .z, .gz, .svgz .Z, .tar.Z, .taz, .tar.bz, .tar.bz2, .tbz, .tbz2, .bz, .bz2, .rar, and .zip formats. Source code and project are included.

What's New:
Compiled as a Universal Binary for PowerPC and Intel support
Support for 7-zip (.7z) files
Console Log maintains its window settings and past logs
Packaged as a Disk Image (.dmg).

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Untar 1.3.1: In the "old days" of UNIX, compressing/uncompressing and archiving/unarchiving files involved cryptic commands such as tar -xvf somefile.
GUI Tar 1.1: GUI Tar is a wrapper application which acts as the front end to the tar, gzip, and bzip2 UNIX utilities.
Oxygen O2 1.2.4: Oxygen O2 allows Mac OS X users to utilize the powerful UNIX tools without having to memorize, or even look up UNIX commands.
ZipperLite 1.0: Zipper is a little GUI wrapper for the command line utilities gzip, bzip2, and tar.
VuMan-X11 1.0: VuMan is a Mac OS X graphical user interface to the main system of Unix software documentation, the man page.
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