Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool
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.
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