Sep 6 2010

MacOS X Products > TarMac

TarMac

The ultimate graphical utility for editing tar files

  • Browse the contents of .tar and .tar.gz files in a familiar Finder-like window.
  • Drag-and-drop files between the Finder and a tar file.
  • Double-click files within a tar document to immediately extract and open.
  • Create folders within a tar document that don't exist in the Mac OS X file system.
  • Rename files within a new tar document without affecting the original files that you are adding to it.
  • Automatically detects Mac OS resource forks and encodes them with MacBinary III
  • Runs on Mac OS X Tiger and Panther

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TarMac is a graphical front-end to the command-line gnutar utility on Mac OS X. While some other graphical tar utilities only give you basic functions, such as the ability to completely extract a tar archive, or perhaps even tar a set of files, TarMac goes much further. TarMac allows you to open and browse the contents of a tar document and drag-and-drop files in or out of the tar document like you would with any standard Finder window.

Additionally, TarMac allows you to very simply perform operations that would normally be tedious and time consuming in the command-line. For example, within TarMac you can create folders in a tar document that don't exist in the OS X file system. From there, you can add/remove files from that folder just like you would expect to do so in the Finder. If you'd like to view a file that exists in a tar document, simply double-click it from within the tar file. TarMac will automatically extract that file into a temp directory and open it for you. Finally, when you add new files to a tar document, TarMac will allow you to rename those files before you actually save the tar document - all without affecting any of the original files on your drive.

Another benefit to TarMac is that just like you would expect with any other graphical application, the actual tar file isn't touched until you save your changes. This gives you the flexibility to add or remove files from the tar document, undo your changes, browse what the file will look like, etc until you are ready to actually save your changes to the tar file.