Either way, you can obtain it from the Fink package called "zip. I believe this command comes with Panther, but I'm not sure. ![]() A simple unzip thisfile.exe is enough to get things going. This article explains how to zip and unzip files and folders on a Mac using the Archive Utility. Unzip an archive: Double-click the archive. Control-click or right-click selected files and choose Compress. Zip multiple files or folders: Shift-click to select them. You can also use the command-line utility unzip in Terminal - in that case, you don't even have to rename the file. Zip a single file or folder: Control-click or right-click it and select Compress. I tested this with Stuffit Expander 7.0.3, but my guess is that you can use almost any version. It doesn't work with Panther's built-in zip-extractor ( BOMArchiveHelper) - so don't double-click the file, but choose "Open with > Stuffit Expander" from the contextual menu (control-click on the file). Just rename the file extension to ".zip" (and confirm the dialog), and open it with Stuffit Expander. ![]() exe file! For instance, a PDF manual from Canon's site - they tell you to open it with Acrobat, but they made it an exe, saving just 0.2 MB. ![]() But you HAVE to have its contents, and you just can't open that. Sometimes you encounter a file on the Net which is compressed as a self-extracting zip-file for Windows only.
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