File extension tar information
TAR comes from tape archive and file extension TAR is a file that uses the archive bitstream form. The file extension was generated in UNIX’s early days and POSIX .1-1988 standardized it first and later POSIX.1-2001 did the same. Initially, file extension TAR was created so that it could be written to sequential I/O tools directly. This was for the purpose of backup purposes. These days however it is made for the purpose of collecting files into a bigger file, while keeping information of file systems like dates, directory structures and group and user permissions and for archiving or distribution
Cannot open tar files in Windows?
Not being able to open tar files in Windows may be a result of registry errors or not having the appropriate application installed. It is strongly recommended that you scan your computer for registry errors (free).File extension TAR is a concentration of a number files and each of the files follows a record of 512-bytes. The data of the file is written with out any alterations only that its length is usually rounded to several 512 bytes and the space the other space left unused. All archive ends have two progressing zero-filled records at the end. File extension TAR‘s size seems to have its origins in disk sectors of 512 bytes that are used in the seventh version of the file system belonging to Unix.