On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 08:19:59PM -0500, 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. The problem is not that it's a ZIP file, but that it's 18 GB... -- Benjamin M. A'Lee || mail: bma@subvert.org.uk web: http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ || gpg: 0xBB6D2FA0 "The state is made for man, not man for the state. And in this respect science resembles the state." -- Albert Einstein
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