Show HN: WinZST > 7-Zip fork with first-class compressed tar support on Windows
By firebadnofire · 2026-09-05 · 2 points · 0 comments
https://github.com/firebadnofire/WinZST
WinZST is a 7-Zip fork that extracts compressed tar archives directly to their final directory instead of materializing an intermediate `.tar`. In one 11.8 GiB `.tar.gz` test containing mostly video, WinZST took 51.87s from archive → `foo/`; 7-Zip took 103.53s across `.tar.…
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