Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your TAZ file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert TAZ to another file type
To convert TAZ archives to another format, you need 7-Zip or other Compressed software.
Convert a file to TAZ
To convert other file formats to the "Compressed TAR Archive" file type, you need software like 7-Zip or a similar tool.
About TAZ files
The .TAZ file format is a compressed archive historically used on UNIX systems. It combines multiple files into a single TAR archive and compresses them using the older UNIX compress utility or GZIP. Because older MS-DOS systems enforced a strict 8.3 filename limit, users could not use the standard .tar.Z or .tar.gz double extensions, leading to the creation of the .TAZ extension. You can extract these files using command-line tools or desktop software like 7-Zip and WinRAR. However, distributing files in this legacy format today causes significant friction. Modern Windows and macOS operating systems do not support .TAZ files natively out of the box. End users who receive a .TAZ file often face format errors or are forced to search for and install third-party software just to view the contents. To avoid these limitations, you should convert .TAZ files to modern, universally recognized archive formats. For seamless sharing and extraction on any operating system without extra software, convert your file to ZIP. If you are distributing files specifically for modern Linux environments, convert to .TAR.GZ. Drag and drop your file here to analyze and convert it - free, online, and without installing software.
Convert.Guru analyzes your TAZ file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert TAZ file to ZIP, RAR, 7Z, TAR, GZ, BZ2, XZ, LZMA, CAB, ACE, ARJ or LHA, you can use 7-Zip or similar software from the "Archive Data Compression" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert XXE, 7Z, Z, PAK, LHA, DEB, UUE, TAR, LZH, ZIP, PKG or RAR files to TAZ, try 7-Zip or another comparable tool in the "Archive Data Compression" category.
The TAZ Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our TAZ converter.