-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/08 19:19, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:03:26PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> If you happen to be using GNOME (God's own DE), then file-roller >> will do just fine. Simply fire up Nautilus and click on the zip >> file. But Dotan is correct: it also take *time*. So while it's >> plowing thru the zip file, relax, get a cup of steaming hot coffee, >> and scald the face of the idiot who created an 18GB zip file... >> > > Assuming that the person intended to send that much data (pictures) via > the network, and that the person can't create a tarball, what's the > problem with an 18GB zip file? Its dos's version of a tarball.
It puts all your eggs in one big basket. Maybe "zip -F" can make the file readable. > iso files aren't compressed. When downloading a new OS CD, I wish they > were gzipped; would save a bunch of telephone time. I wonder how compressible they are. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "The kniiife..., the kniiife... The life of the wife is ended by the knife." Stewie Griffin & Eliza Pinchley -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHy2ioS9HxQb37XmcRAsjQAJ4qp4HJ/y9dJNYc48XVs2QYqpJziACeLDap KSKa7MWjlZk3Jl2w5DevwIw= =1GPz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
