On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 20:19:59 -0500 "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > iso files aren't compressed. When downloading a new OS CD, I wish they > were gzipped; would save a bunch of telephone time. > > Doug. The main reason was data migration and backup. The family member created a bunch of archives and then reformatted the HD, re-installed the OS and unzipped all the archives. Everything worked fine except for this specific one. I hope it is just a bug is Mac OS X Leopard's unzip tool.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
