Garth Wood wrote:
> Moose wrote:
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> [snip]
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>> And for those of us so backward as to be using Windoze, the Windows
>> Explorer will extract zip files. You have to actually double click on
>> the zip file in XP. In Vista, the contents are automatically shown, as
>> though it were a folder, and there is an extract button up top.
>>
>
> Moose is correct, of course -- I've just never been able to bring myself
> to trust that XP will do the unZIPping part correctly. ;-)
Never failed yet, and I get a lot of stuff from a client, including huge
XML data files, in zip format. I can't imagine MS actually wrote it,
just licensed code, I'd bet.
> (FreeZIP also ZIPs stuff up for me, which XP doesn't do particularly
> efficiently, either).
>
Perfect AndrewF style irony!
I will try FreeZip! for zipping. XTree Gold, which I've used for zipping
forever, is just a little bit less happy under Vista than XP, although
the zipping part works fine. Just zipped up three exes for a client with
it this afternoon.
I'm sure going to miss XTree when I finally can't get it to work under
some OS. There is just nothing even close to the simplicity and speed
with which it can do so many useful things. I still am careful to keep
code and data file names to 8 characters, as it doesn't do long file
names. The file and directory comparison functions alone are gold.
They did a windoze version, but it wasn't as good. I haven't bothered to
install it since W95. :-(
Another app with ancient roots that I use regularly is KEdit. Originally
a DOS emulation of the XEdit editor of IBM's CMS timeshareing
environment, their windoze port is just excellent. Like those
journalists still using PC emulations of their old mainframe editing
systems, I'm still using "XEdit"
Damn, that just reminded my of Walt.....
Moose
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