[icon-discuss] Re: Unzipping a File
- From: "John Esak" <john@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 20:01:56 -0400
Unfortunately, knowing how to unzip things on the console is not the only
thing you would need to know to install a Linux file/app on the Icon or BP.
There are many other commands you would need to be conversant with to do the
job correctly. Anyone can learn this stuff, but it takes making a concerted
effort to learn Linux and using the console mode without knowing Linux is
not something I would recommend. In fact, my suggestion is stay completely
away from the console unless you do know the commands you need to run in
that mode.
The command to unzip a .gz file is gunzip. A .gz file has been zipped with
gzip. There are many windows programs that would unzip a .gz file including
winzip, but you would be left with all the files on the windows side of
things... not a good thing. Sometimes, a gzipped file unzips to lots of
different folders as it's being unzipped, so it's never a good idea to unzip
a .gz on the windows side of a windows/linux combination.
I wish I had a better answer for you than this.
John
-----Original Message-----
From: icon-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:icon-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of kaye zimpher
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 5:49 PM
To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: Unzipping a File
That only works if they are windows extractable files. But if you are
putting a client such as pine on the unit you would need to know a little
about unzipping from the console.
----- Original Message -----
From: Jenny Axler
To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 1:18 PM
Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: Unzipping a File
To unzip a file on Icon or Braille plus, i would do this:
put the unit in Disk Drive Mode, and unzip it with Windows, that way,
you need not move the file off the unit, then move the extracted data back.
You can extract the data in Windows directly on to Icon or Braille Plus's
harddrive.
Jenny
----- Original Message -----
From: Irwin Hott
To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 9:37 AM
Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: Unzipping a File
I don't have a clue where to start in using the console.
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