Alex Taylor has updated the eCS arcview utility to Version 2.02 is a bugfix release. It is available on the eComStation Betazone. This appears to be available to anyone with an http://www.ecomstation.com signon.
"Archive Viewer is a very simple GUI tool for viewing and extracting archive files of various types."
From CHANGELOG:
2009-01-05 (2.02)
* Extracting a tarball to the root directory should now work correctly when arcview.exe is on the same drive.
* Added support for the latest tar.exe version (uses different syntax for bzip2).
* Pushbuttons on secondary dialogs now use the correct language.
Source: OS2VOICE.org