Hi,
I need to download tar.exe to archive the files before doing gzip......
I downloaded the executables from Browse GnuWin Files on SourceForge.net

but my concern is whether this particular exe is safe to use? is it a licensed version?
Have anybody downloaded from this site? Need ur advice.

If you feel uncomfortable with sourceforge, download SFU from Microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en

licensed by whom?

It's a port of GNU tar, so if you're comfortable with that, it should be fairly close. Any significant differences will likely be related to binary versus text file mode issues that sometimes crop up in windows but don't exist in unix, commandline parameter quoting and shell expansion issues in the Windows commandline shell(in short, the DOS-style commandline shell handles neither quotes nor expansion, any programs that want that behavior must do it themselves), or filenames that are possible on UNIX but not windows, or case sensitivity issues(it's possible to have file, File, and FILE as three separate files in UNIX, Windows will only let you have one of them), permissions, links(tar can store symlinks, which only a few odd Server versions of Windows can handle), etc, etc.