How to Gzip a File on a Mac. If you have some files on your Mac that you want to archive, you can compress them using the Gzip compression format.

A file with the TGZ or GZ file extension is created using the Unix-based archival application tar and further compressed using GZIP Compression.

This guide shows you how to extract .tar.gz files on Windows 10 and Windows 11 using a command prompt or free open source app to help with ...