[mac4theblind] Re: Compressing files
- From: Sarah Alawami <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:46:16 -0800
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
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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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