Turn TAR.Z archives into TAR. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
Drop TAR.Z files here
or choose from your computer paste with Ctrl V
from Photos or Files
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Drop TAR.Z (compress, .Z) files onto the box above, or click it to choose them. ToAny reads the file's contents to detect the type, so a wrong extension does not matter.
Press Convert. There is nothing else to set. The work happens in this tab.
Save the TAR, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The TAR.Z to TAR converter is part of this page and runs inside your browser. Your archives are never sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
Nothing has to travel to a server and back, so the conversion starts the moment you press Convert, even on a slow connection.
No sign-up, no email address and no watermark. Add several files and download them together as a ZIP.
TAR.Z is obsolete and compresses poorly by today's standards. TAR preserves Unix file permissions and is expected by many developer tools. TAR.Z is at home in very old Unix software and archives; TAR is the usual choice for bundling files on Unix systems.
A password-protected archive is refused, since its contents cannot be read without the password. A plain TAR does not compress anything, so expect it to be about as large as the files inside; TAR.GZ and 7z make smaller files. TAR.Z can be unpacked here but not created, because the 7-Zip build ToAny uses has no encoder for it; the files are repacked into TAR.
A .Z file is compressed with the Unix compress program, which uses the LZW algorithm; a .tar.Z is a TAR archive compressed that way. Patent concerns about LZW were one reason gzip was written, and compress has been obsolete for decades. You find .Z files mainly in old software archives.
Opens in Linux and Unix tools, 7-Zip
TAR.Z converterTAR glues files into one stream while preserving Unix permissions, without compressing them. It is nearly always paired with gzip, giving .tar.gz.
Opens in macOS, Linux and recent Windows; 7-Zip elsewhere
TAR converter| TAR.ZCompress-compressed TAR archive | TARTAR archive | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | Unix compress archive | Tape Archive |
| Type | Compressed archive | Archive (no compression) |
| Compression | Lossless (LZW) | None |
| Introduced | 1984, by Spencer Thomas and others (Unix compress) | 1979, by the Unix project at Bell Labs |
| Opens in | Linux and Unix tools, 7-Zip | macOS, Linux and recent Windows; 7-Zip elsewhere |
| Best for | Very old Unix software and archives | Bundling files on Unix systems |
| File extension | .tar.z, .taz, .z | .tar |
No. The TAR.Z to TAR conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
No. The files inside are repackaged unchanged.
Yes. Add as many as you like, convert them together and download each result or all of them as one ZIP.
The steps are the same everywhere because ToAny runs in the web browser: open this page in a current version of Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox, add the TAR.Z file, press Convert and save the TAR. There is nothing to install.
Yes. An archive can be up to 500 MB, unpack to at most 1 GB and hold up to 50,000 files; beyond those limits the page says so. Beyond that the limit is your device's memory, since nothing is uploaded; a computer copes with large files better than a phone.