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Anonymous
Some info for those unaware: tar is NOT a compression format. ALL .tar files are is a folder or series of files that have been attached to function as a single file. THERE IS NO DECOMPRESSION OR COMPRESSION OF ANY KIND INVOLVED.
The reason you see .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 is that after you tar the file, you can THEN compress it using bz2 or gz compression. bz2 is the best I know of; the file sizes are quite small, and decompress extremely fast.
Of course, if you're not in Linux, you probably won't have easily accessible utilities for CREATING these files, but still....
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