File uncompression utility for Mac

Untar is a nice, free Mac software, being part of the category Utilities with subcategory Compression.

More about Untar

The current version of the software is 1.3.2 and it has been updated on 2/26/2007. It’s available for users with the operating system Mac OS X and previous versions, and you can get it in English.

Since the software was added to our catalog in 2007, it has obtained 9,325 downloads, and last week it had 3 downloads.

About the download, Untar is a program that takes up less free space than the average program in the section Utilities. It’s a software very heavily used in United States and France.

In the “old days” of UNIX, compressing/uncompressing and archiving/unarchiving files involved cryptic commands such as tar -xvf somefile.tar. However, since those days, the masses have come to use computers, and they expect an easy to use system with graphical elements and interaction. The days of the command-line interface are distant, and expecting the average user to resort to those older methods is normally out of the question. This is where Untar steps in.

Untar is a wrapper application which acts as the front end to the 7za, tar, gzip, compress, bzip2, rar, and zip utilities. These utilities handle the complicated work, while Untar provides a pleasant and easy method to interact with the system tools.