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GUI Tar - 1.2.2

Compression & archiving utility.

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Version 1.2.2:	(5.0)
Selected Version:	1.2.2
Release Date:	2009-03-15
License:	Freeware
Downloads (version 1.2.2):	2,163
Downloads (all versions):	28,664

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Product Description:

GUI Tar is a wrapper application which acts as the front end to the 7za, tar, gzip, bzip2, unrar, and unzip UNIX utilities. The operating system itself handles the complicated work, while GUI Tar provides a pleasant and easy method to interact with these system tools. GUI Tar is divided into two sections: Extractor and Compressor.

GUI Tar Extractor offers the functionality of its sister application Untar 1.3.2 by being able to uncompress and extract files from archives. The following files can be opened by Extractor: .7z, .tar, .tgz, .tar.gz, .dmg.gz, .svgz, .gz, .tar.z, .z, .Z, .tar.Z, .taz, .tbz, .tbz2, .bz, .bz2, .rar, and .zip.

GUI Tar Compressor can compress and/or archive a collection of files in .7z, .bz2, .tar, .tbz, .tgz, .gz, or .Z formats. Archive files and folders from multiple locations, instead of being restricted to just one directory.

What's new in this version:

Removed alert dialogs from appearing after successfully completing a task.
Removed further unnecessary messages being sent to the system logs.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9

Feedback Summary:

Version 1.2.2:
Overall Rating:	(5.0)	Features:	(4.0)	Support:	Not rated (0.0)
Ease of Use:	(5.0)	Quality / Stability:	(5.0)	Price:	(5.0)

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Just works (well) - Version: 1.2.2, 4/12/2009 03:11AM PST

Joe Wheeler

(1) This absolute gem works with Leopard (10.5.6 as of this writing).

(2) Though zip and gzip supposedly use the same algorithm (Zempel something-or-other), using gzip GUI Tar consistently makes smaller files, with no apparent speed hit.

(3) Truly a time saver over having to open the Terminal to accomplish an alternative compression to zip; this works fast and slick.

(4) Recommendations for a future version (and ask for some money): (a) a Contextual Menu plugin that offers formats if not compression levels (b) compression levels (fast and bigger, slow and smaller, etc.), could be pre-set in Preferences.

This is a great example of a GUI "wrapper" that is clean, intuitive and in the grand Mac fashion "just works".