[mac4theblind] Re: Compressing files

    I'm not sure.  There probably is, but I've never needed to use anything 
other than the compress feature into a zip file.  There is a .rar expander app, 
so I'd imagine there must be one to create that kind of file.


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On Jan 23, 2012, at 4:05 PM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:

> OK, I feel like an idiot asking this.
> 
> You'd think, as long now as I've used a Mac I'd know the answer to this, but 
> honest to God, I pulling a mental blankage here.  LOL!
> 
> I know that I can vo+shift+M on a file, and go to compress, and it then will 
> create a zip file, and I also know that hitting command+O on a zip file will 
> extract to the folder which I already am in, and yes I do have the 
> unarchiver, but here lies my question.  What if I want to make say... oh? I 
> dono, say... a .RAR file, or say... a 7ZIP file.  Or maybe I want to make a 
> multi-Part RAR file, or maybe a password protected zip/RAR file, etc.  In 
> Windows, this is a sinch.  I just use WinRAR.  On the mac, however, are there 
> any free, prefered, or very reasonably priced... not prefered... apps that 
> will give me all, or at least a fair amount of this flexability?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Chris.
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