TAR, BIN and CUE files - how to open and use them?

Question

I recently downloaded some programs from bitorrent and torrent websites (I used uTorrrent as my biTorrent downloading centre). I tried to open one of the programs, but they didn't open and asked "choose a program to open the file with." The program files had .tar, .bin and .cue file extentions. What are they and how can I open them? I'm just beginning to use torrents, so I don't know anything about the downloading system. Please guide me on how I can download programs through torrents, successfully open and use those programs.

Answer 1

Those are image files that you burn to disk. Use Nero or something like it.

Answer 2

The extensions you name are cd/dvd images. In laymens terms, they are pictures of exactly the way the data was arranged on the physical disc. You need a separate program to "mount" the files. Personally, I use daemon tools, you should be able to find it easily online.



Daemon tools will create a virtual disc drive, then you can mount the images to the virtual drive. This basically tricks the computer into thinking that you have put a physical disc into a physical drive, and it behaves accordingly, running the program.



Alternatively, some of the better burning programs can interpret those images and burn an actual copy 1-to-1 copy of the original disc. But some programs can detect that they are being run off of such a copy and won't work.



It can be intimidating at first, but I sweat that it is easier than it sounds.



Good luck.

Answer 3

A tar file is like a zip file. All three of these are linux file types.



Try reading on this site, it may help:



http://drupal.org/node/8592

Answer 4

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The best program to decompress files is Winrar, you can unzip all kind of files!(.zip, .rar, .7z, .iso, .tar, .jar, .cab, .gz, .ace, .uue, .bz2, etc...)