It is just a way of collecting data of all kinds (files, directories, etc.) together and doesn’t do any kind of compression. The name tar stands for tape archive, and the format was originally developed to save data to tape drives. Compatible with Unix, Unix-like and Microsoft Windows, it is used to collect multiple files into an archive file (which can be called a tarball).
Pack files to tar, ZIP and 7z with password protection.Unzip tar, RAR, ZIP, 7z, ISO and 8 other archive file types.
