[mac4theblind] Re: Compressing files
- From: Sarah Alawami <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:29:27 -0800
It is not. Google bits per second or SArchiver. Note that the website might be
down. they are working on getting it back up. Let me check the update page
right quick and give you a link.Ok found it.
http://bitpersecond.com/bps/sarchiver.html
On Jan 24, 2012, at 1:35 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote:
> OK Sarah, that's excellent. Can you provide me a link whereby I can get a
> trial and then buy it, if I like it? Is it in the app store?
>
> Chris.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sarah Alawami" <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 10:46 PM
> Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: Compressing files
>
>
> I would recomend SArchiver. I go over it on my youtube demo. It is a 20 or so
> dollar app but it is well wirth it.
>
> Take care.
> On Jan 23, 2012, at 2:08 PM, Justin Harford wrote:
>
>> 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
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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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