[ale] when is a zip file not a zip file

[Jeff Hubbs]

Sounds like a more comprehensively-packaged Linux distro is in order.

In Gentoo, "emerge unrar" gets the job done.

Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 September 2006 22:34, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> | 
> | Windows users know not of what they do.  You need unrar.
>
> Thanks for the tip.
> Only three problems:
> 1.  No such program or man page on this machine
> 2.  No such program listed in any of the repos I normally access via
>     <yum install unrar>
>
> 3.  So, wanting to get somewhere, I copied the *.rar file to a thumb
> drive and carried it upstairs to my wife's Mac. It couldn't handle
> the file either -- but at least it knew where to go to update its
> StuffIt program to unpack the damn thing. So we downloaded the update,
> installed it and unpacked the the archive.  But noticed on accessing the
> thumb drive that an unknown file had appeared <throbber.png>.  I have
> no idea where this little goodie came from so I deleted it on the spot.
> Googled the file and apparently it is some sort of Red Hat image. How
> could it have suddenly appeared on my thumb drive?  It wasn't there
> before.
>
> Sean
>
>
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