Re: Anybody know an alternative to WinZip?
- From: "spiritrising" <spiritrising@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 15:56:59 GMT
i have winzip on one of mine been there for a year now and still works.
spiritrising
"Razzbar" <glakk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1135913118.246232.68950@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Terry Richards wrote:
>> Razzbar wrote:
>> > Does anybody know of an alternative that can handle .tar.gz files?
>> > Preferably some gnu open source thing.
>>
>> what about tar itself? ie "tar xvzf file.tar.gz"
>
> Oh, this is a storebought pee-cee with exx-pee. You really think it
> would have tar on it? Hell, this is one of the first boxes I've used
> that doesn't already have winzip. And I hear that winzip doesn't handle
> tar archives well... or something. Seem to remember the last time I
> tried to untar this archive with winzip, it complained... I was only
> after one file, and it worked, but I don't know about the rest of the
> archive.
>
> Mainly, I was worried that winzip's "45 day free trial" was really
> enforced like lots of programs do. I don't like to put shit on a
> computer that goes belly up after the trial expires, and leaves ghosts
> lingering.
>
.
- References:
- Anybody know an alternative to WinZip?
- From: Razzbar
- Re: Anybody know an alternative to WinZip?
- From: Terry Richards
- Re: Anybody know an alternative to WinZip?
- From: Razzbar
- Anybody know an alternative to WinZip?
- Prev by Date: Re: any KQED public tv viewers in SF????
- Next by Date: Re: Caveat!
- Previous by thread: Re: Anybody know an alternative to WinZip?
- Next by thread: Re: Anybody know an alternative to WinZip?
- Index(es):
Relevant Pages
|
