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Derek8588
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 Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:28 am Post subject: .gz files |
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| Is there any possible way i can extract these with winzip? If not, what could I use? I want to test out the homebrew quake game for PS2. Thanks |
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ooPo
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:57 am Post subject: |
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| Winzip should be able to handle them fine, but if not you can use winrar instead. |
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Derek8588
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks, but when i downloaded it, the file extension was .tar
The link on the site when i downloaded it was ________.tar.gz
So what can i use to extract this? Thanks for your help. |
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cory1492
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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| I use winrar to extract these. with winrar you can right click on the file and tell it to extract to a dir and it takes care of the tarball for you and decompresses it. |
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ooPo
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 2:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Do people not even bother just trying anymore? You've got winzip, you've got a file... see if it will open for you. You don't have to wait for someone else to say ok. :) |
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cheriff
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Thanks, but when i downloaded it, the file extension was .tar
The link on the site when i downloaded it was ________.tar.gz |
Sometimed Internet Explorer does that, It decompresses the gz on the fly as it downloads, but doesn't update the extension accordingly. Or Vice Versa.
I hevent used IE in a while, so I can't remember exactly what it gets up to, but it does do some funky buisness with these exrtensions. Try adding or removing the .gz to .tar and see if anything works.
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EugeneE3RD
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| Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2005 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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| cheriff wrote: | | Quote: | Thanks, but when i downloaded it, the file extension was .tar
The link on the site when i downloaded it was ________.tar.gz |
Sometimed Internet Explorer does that, It decompresses the gz on the fly as it downloads, but doesn't update the extension accordingly. Or Vice Versa.
I hevent used IE in a while, so I can't remember exactly what it gets up to, but it does do some funky buisness with these exrtensions. Try adding or removing the .gz to .tar and see if anything works. |
Correct. I remember when I used to use IE & I wanted to download the source code to a game which was a 100KB tar.gz file, IE downloaded 500KB since it decompress gz on the fly. This is one of the reasons why I don't use IE, I only use IE to view the windows update site, I use Mozilla Firefox for my web browsing.
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Derek8588
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| Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:45 am Post subject: Im sorry... |
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| ooPo wrote: | | Do people not even bother just trying anymore? You've got winzip, you've got a file... see if it will open for you. You don't have to wait for someone else to say ok. :) |
Sorry, It wouldnt extract with winzip. Plus dont you have to register for winrar after a 30 day free trial? Screw it, ill jus do that. You can go ahead and delete this thread now. Sorry once again. |
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ooPo
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| Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 11:31 am Post subject: |
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Well, sometimes you have to buy software or find something better.
If you found something better it would be nice to share what it was. |
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EugeneE3RD
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| Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 3:59 pm Post subject: Re: Im sorry... |
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| Derek8588 wrote: | | ooPo wrote: | | Do people not even bother just trying anymore? You've got winzip, you've got a file... see if it will open for you. You don't have to wait for someone else to say ok. :) |
Sorry, It wouldnt extract with winzip. Plus dont you have to register for winrar after a 30 day free trial? Screw it, ill jus do that. You can go ahead and delete this thread now. Sorry once again. |
Well, there are a good amount of freeware/open source decompressors which can decompress *.tar & *.gz files. For example, I use Ultimatezip 2.7.1 which is located at http://www.ultimatezip.com/download.htm .
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