[mac4theblind] Re: Compressing files

  • From: Justin Harford <blindstein@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:08:07 -0800

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