Another very useful utility : WinRAR (VMs: Some Fundamental Questions)

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2/26/03 9:56:25 PM, "Robert Teague" <rteague@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[General tale of woe, amongst which:]

>Okay, Windows asked what program do I want to open
>the files with, so I said WordPad. It opened the January
>file, but the formatting is still gone.
...

>But it set up "Access shortcuts" in the unzipped files. That's
>what confused me.

That would confuse me too!

Do a google search for "WinRAR". It's a Russian unarchiver for
Win9x (and I suppose, Win-later), that can not only unpack a
whole host of archives, including .cab and .tar, but also
run executables directly from the archive. For instance,
if a zip file contains setup.exe, you just click on "setup.exe"
and WinRAR executes it, and... it works (oh, wonder of wonders,
I'm so used to nothing, or very little, working). If the
archive contains a text file, and you click on its name,
WinRAR displays it (I checked that it worked on the 1998
mail  archive). So go and get it!

I just did a google search and the first hit  was:

www.rarlab.com/ 





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