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> [...] the only issue I can see with using "untar" [...]
Untar makes perfect sense to me.
However, where do you draw the line about which tools to use as a verb?
It sounds like tar and zip are on the short list. But what about: gz,
tgz, bzip2, rar, 7z, XZ, lzma, as well as platform-centric cousins like:
cab, jar, apk, xpi, etc? They come and go over the years.
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