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hi, i downloaded this music file thing, and it wont open because my computer doesnt recognize "TAR". how do i extract TAR..or how do i get my music to play? - thanks
sorry man, as you can see im not really good in computers...and well, what do you want to know? like...the files on the desktop..and i right clicked it and went to properties..and the "file tyte" is "TAR FILE" ...thats all it really says..
If you're on windows download winrar and make sure it's associated with the .tar file type. After installation you should be able to uncompress the file using winrar and then use it.
If you're on linux then it should just be a matter of typing "man tar" and reading that man page. However since you probably would want the easy way out it would be
"tar -xvf filename.tar"
the x is for extract the v is for verbose and the f is for filename.
man im really really confused...i D/l winrar....and so i associated it with .TAR , but it still wont play? all the .TAR files have turned into 'winrar archives' how do i switch it to ZIP?
So what is this music file thing you downloaded? Windows stuff is usually compressed is in a zip format. What happened when you tried to extract the files via winrar?
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