I use FileRunner for that sort of thing (when I don't just use tar). It is tk 8.0 based. You can nab it at http://www.cd.chalmers.se/~hch/filerunner.html If you were not referring to unix, I believe winzip can handle tar files, but I am not positive. Josh > > Is there a good program to compress and extract files with tar and zip > that is gui based? >