Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:28:56 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> Cc: Zbigniew Szalbot <z.szalbot@lcwords.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compression with *.zip output Message-ID: <20090321122856.735b30e5.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <49C4C108.5080406@gmail.com> References: <ab50e581e2eb1586ab4bc82414c7372d.squirrel@relay.lc-words.com> <20090321112059.5be0581a.freebsd@edvax.de> <49C4C108.5080406@gmail.com>
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First of all, thanks for enlightening me. I don't use any MICROS~1 products so it was a really honest question. Whenever I needed interoperability with a "Windows" PC, there was the big problem: For any additional functionality "foo" you needed to install "WinFoo". There was nothing from the OS's side. On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:27:20 +0200, Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com> wrote: > Wildly off-topic as we are discussing Windows, but all recent versions > (XP, Vista, etc) can handle zip files. They call them "compressed > folders" (don't confuse with NTFS compression though) and even have a > silly wizard-like interface for extracting files from them. If you > don't like it you can always install WinZip to take over this function. I've seen "WinZip" and my stomache reported to me. :-) Much better is the FAR Manager which handles zip archives (and many others) just like directories, like the Midnight Commander does. It's typical for MICROS~1 to make things more complicated than they need to be, and invent new names for already known stuff. The next time someone mentions "compressed folders" I will know what he's talking about, and show him some (real) folders I have compressed to 10cm x 10cm x 10cm handy sized cubes. :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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