[icon-discuss] Re: Unzipping a File
- From: "David Poehlman" <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 08:05:08 -0400
PUt the file on a card, put it in your pc, either use windows to unzip a zip
file or download the free utility for windows that was mentioned here
earlier and unzip the file onto the card, put the card back into the icon
and transfer the folder to the hd if you like. If the unpacked file is too
loarge to fit on the card, you might try putting the icon in diskdrive mode
and unzipping it directly there. When we get samba back, you could use that
and access the icon that way.
----- Original Message -----
From: "kaye zimpher" <kayezimpher@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 10:23 PM
Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: Unzipping a File
Thanks, but I am not sure I agree with this completely. I personally do not
have time to learn Linux or the console, but my fiancé for instance has
taken a lot of time to start teaching himself about the programming and the
console and such. I think if person wants to learn they should be
encouraged to do so and asking questions is the best way to start. If a
person truly wants to take the time to learn something as beneficial as this
why stop them or stifle them in that desire?
----- Original Message -----
From: John Esak
To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 8:01 PM
Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: Unzipping a File
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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