RE: Is "untar" an acceptable verb?

["Porrello, Leonard" <lporrello -at- illumina -dot- com>]

"7z" is the name brand of a very popular laxative in Estonia. Just kidding (and we are nowhere near Friday).

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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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