From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 10:31:13 +0100, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter
Ceresole) wrote:

>Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> She can't manage to open .zip files, which seems very odd to me...
>
>I finally got there; her machine (an iMac) opens Zips beautifully. Not
>the problem.
>
>People have been sending her gzips. Why the hell they have been doing
>that I have no idea. And although recent, it's not all the same people,
>so it's not some global fuckup.
>
>I suppose I should have installed something to open them, but I can't
>imagine that she will be getting loads of them, and it was a hot day...
>
>But I seem to remember Stuffit Expander handling gzips, and I had a copy
>on a thumb drive... And it wouldn't open *her* gzips.
>
>Oh well, never mind...

The Unarchive.app is loads better than anything Stuffit have ever
produced ever. It handles most archive formats.

Cheers - Jaimie
--
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read" -- Groucho Marx
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on
On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 10:53:15 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh
<jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:

>On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 10:31:13 +0100, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter
>Ceresole) wrote:
>
>>Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>> She can't manage to open .zip files, which seems very odd to me...
>>
>>I finally got there; her machine (an iMac) opens Zips beautifully. Not
>>the problem.
>>
>>People have been sending her gzips. Why the hell they have been doing
>>that I have no idea. And although recent, it's not all the same people,
>>so it's not some global fuckup.
>>
>>I suppose I should have installed something to open them, but I can't
>>imagine that she will be getting loads of them, and it was a hot day...
>>
>>But I seem to remember Stuffit Expander handling gzips, and I had a copy
>>on a thumb drive... And it wouldn't open *her* gzips.
>>
>>Oh well, never mind...
>
>The Unarchive.app

The Unarchiver.app, sorry.

Cheers - Jaimie
--
If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing
From: Peter Ceresole on
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:

> The Unarchiver.app, sorry.

Yup. Thank you.

I even find that I already have it, but not installed...
--
Peter
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