Terminal is fabulous! On 23-01-2012, at 13:42, David Hilbert Poehlman wrote: > terminal has all you need. > > On Jan 23, 2012, at 4:35 PM, Justin Harford wrote: > > Hi there > > I have an application called unrar installed on my mac that opens rar files. > I just looked through the menus though, and it does not apparently make them. > If you have the developer tools package and macports on your computer, you > could install the terminal app unrar, which apparently makes rar files. I > just figured out yesterday that you can make .tar.gz files on the mac using > terminal > > tar -vzfc /directory_to_compress directory_to_compress.tar.gz > > The tar.gz could have any name actually. > > Then to unrap it, > > tar -xvf directory_to_compress.tar.gz > > It is free and it is already installed. > > Justin > On 23-01-2012, at 13:13, John Panarese wrote: > >> 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. >> >> >> Take Care >> >> John D. Panarese >> Director >> Mac for the Blind >> Tel, (631) 724-4479 >> Email, john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com >> >> >> AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE >> MAC VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT >> >> >> >> >> 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. >>> >>> ************ >>> >>> >>> You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. >>> >>> >>> The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to >>> their list subscription is: >>> >>> //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind >>> >>> The list archive is located at >>> >>> //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ >>> >>> All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: >>> >>> john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> >> >> ************ >> >> >> You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. >> >> >> The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to >> their list subscription is: >> >> //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind >> >> The list archive is located at >> >> //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ >> >> All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: >> >> john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> > > ************ > > > You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. > > > The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to > their list subscription is: > > //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind > > The list archive is located at > > //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ > > All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: > > john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > -- > Jonnie Appleseed > with his > Hands-On Technolog(eye)s > touching the internet > reducing technology's disabilities > one byte at a time > > ************ > > > You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. > > > The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to > their list subscription is: > > //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind > > The list archive is located at > > //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ > > All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: > > john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > ************ You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to their list subscription is: //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind The list archive is located at //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx