Comments on: ZenTAR Win32 Untar Utility https://zentastic.me/blog I can scarcely move or draw my breath // Let me, let me freeze again to death Wed, 06 Jan 2016 03:58:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Anthony Li https://zentastic.me/blog/zentar-win32-untar-utility/comment-page-1/#comment-16457 Anthony Li Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:02:09 +0000 https://zentastic.me/blog/?page_id=4344#comment-16457 Hi thanks for this. I was wondering how I can specify the output directory that has spaces?
e.g. zentar file.tar d:\Games\For Anthony\

The directory “For Anthony” has a space. Can zentar handle this?

]]> By: Shannon Larratt is Zentastic › Untarring https://zentastic.me/blog/zentar-win32-untar-utility/comment-page-1/#comment-1337 Shannon Larratt is Zentastic › Untarring Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:28:02 +0000 https://zentastic.me/blog/?page_id=4344#comment-1337 [...] So I was trying to untar a large archive — a time consuming process — and had the problem that the laptop was going to sleep while I was doing it. I don’t seem to be able to completely turn off the hibernation settings on this machine, so below is my solution as to a DIY mouse jiggler. Unfortunately I discovered that even with this the process crashed (both in GNU tar and WinRAR), presumably because those programs were never designed/tested with ultra-large archives in mind… Which to be honest is a little surprising! Anyway, I can’t imagine anyone else needs it (although it includes source code, so maybe that’s more useful), but for posterity I posted my own untar utility for Windows. [...]

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