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The .tar.gz file format is a combination of TAR packaging followed by a GNU zip (gzip) compression. It is commonly used in Unix based operating systems. This type of files can contain multiple files and most often they come as package files, programs or installers. On MS-DOS platform, .tgz is used as short of tar.gz because MS-DOS can’t recognize a file type containing two dots and more than three characters after the dot. As they include both .tar and .gz files, they must be decompressed and subsequently expanded with a TAR utility. WinZip is one of the most widely used tools for unzipping tar.gz files.
We designed WinZip to open and extract from the widest range of file formats, including all of the following:
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