Best software for unzipping TAR files

[Anastasis]

Many of the zipped files that are created for downloaded use the TAR GZ format and exclude the ZIP format. I would be interested to know what Windows software is preferred by CMSMS users for unzipping these format files. I have an old copy of PowerArchiver 2001 which works with some of them but doesn't open others. Is there a more up to date (and free) GUI version that is recomended?

[calguy1000]

ZIP and Tar are two different formats,  .tar.gz files mean that the "Tape Arcive" has been gzipped using gnu zip.

Now.... talking about (ugh) windows software,  zipgenius works well for this type of stuff, if you must use windows, and you can't use something that 'makes windows actually work' (like cygwin).  then zipgenius will do the task.  The only problem with zipgenius is that it doesn't really like large files (like more than a few hundred megabytes).  But it'll work well for CMS stuff without problems.

[Ted]

Does 7-zip do tar.gz?

[KO]

7-zip does .tar, tar.gz, tar.gz2, .tgz etc.

[Anastasis]

Zipgenius is perfect - thank you. I had a look at 7-zip too but found that Zipgenius is slicker and better designed all round.

Sorry calguy1000 about Windows - someone has to suffer it you know! 

What do you use?

[calguy1000]

Well, I use kubuntu for my desktop system.  When I need to run windows I run it under vmware, and install cygwin so that I can use commands like tar, gzip, unzip, etc, from the command line with no problems.