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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The FRED Workshop => Topic started by: NeonShivan on July 06, 2008, 09:14:50 pm
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:mad: This is not great for me. The Campaigns like Sol: A History is a RAR File. Can someone post campains here that is not RAR FIled or 7Z. Thanks. :nod:
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Download 7-zip.
Its free.
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Or ultimate zip. Its free too.
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Another vote for 7-Zip. It's as free as a software can be and it will handle, among other things, .rars and .7z's. Easy to install, easy to use, doesn't waste resources or disk space and does absolutely no evil things to your computer.
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Uh, yeah. Another for 7Zip. Why wouldn't you download it, rather than asking for ordinary zip files?
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Hmm. A small comparison for you, dear BTA.
Scenario 1 - You refuse to get 7-Zip: You'll be restricted to the .zip format, which means that people will have to find campaigns, pack them up as .zips and host/upload them somewhere. The result: Slightly difficult, highly time-consuming and extremely frustrating for others, easy but incredibly slow for you, since you'll have to wait until a .zip has been uploaded.
Scenario 2 - You agree to get 7-Zip: You can immediately start finding campaigns yourself, using the Missions & Campaigns board and/or FreeSpaceMods as your source. When you find one, you just download it and extract with 7-Zip, since no one ever uses an archive format not supported by 7-Zip. The result: Other people are not concerned and therefore their lives remain easy. You'll have to see some (insignificant) trouble downloading and installing 7-Zip, but that's it.
Compare these two methods and let us know of your decision. If you choose the first... well, sucks to be you.
Edited to better correspond with the cold, harsh world we live in.
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Compare these two methods and let us know of your decision.
Keeping in mind that the rest of us generally have better things to do than repackage perfectly functional compressed archives because someone else is lazy...
(Sorry Lobo, your hint was too subtle. Sometime the cold, hard, blunt truth is definitely called for :P)
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What if he has a Titan scenario and can't download stuff like 7-z ?
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(Sorry Lobo, your hint was too subtle. Sometime the cold, hard, blunt truth is definitely called for :P)
Gotcha.
Get 7-Zip or DIE.
What if he has a Titan scenario and can't download stuff like 7-z ?
Well, then he should be fully banned from his computer like Titan. Having a critical approach when downloading new programs is wise, yes. But the line between a safe way of thinking and paranoia is quite thin.
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Actually he could just get Turey's installer which downloads everything as zips IIRC. :D
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aren't they downloaded and then unpacked automatically ?
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Yep.
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Depends how up-to-date the campaign list on the installer is though.
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But I do believe that the Installer doesn't get all the "lesser" classics, such as Second Great War Part 2.
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Iirc ... No. It gets the more celebrated campaigns like Derelict, Sync, JAD. Basically the entire "reccomended playing" list.
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So Z-Zip is free? I not angry at .zip. I just need any campaigns that is R.A.R Filed to .Zip. Some People may not have it. Or exe.
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Last time I checked, Winrar was free as well. :p
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So Z-Zip is free?
7-Zip is free, yes. And I'd recommend switching to it. It can do everything Winzip can, but more efficiently.
I just need any campaigns that is R.A.R Filed to .Zip.
:wtf: wat
rar... filed to zip? Rar is an archive format like zip. If you zip a rar, you still have to extract both and you'll end up back to square one.
Last time I checked, Winrar was free as well. :p
Actually, shareware. Which means that it is technically "illegal" to use it after the evaluation period without registering (=paying money for) it.
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Last time I checked, Winrar was free as well. :p
Actually, shareware. Which means that it is technically "illegal" to use it after the evaluation period without registering (=paying money for) it.
Ohh, right, my bad. :p What you get when you quickly google and your screen gets filled with free downloads here and there. The "free of charge" part means some website doesn't charge you for dowloading a free trial you can just as well download on the company's own site...
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http://7-zip.org/
That will satisfy all of your needs.
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This is annoying.
7-ZIP IS FREE!! IT IS NOT ILLEGAL! IT IS A SMALL DOWNLOAD!! IT DOES NOT HAVE VIRUSES!!!
Simple enough?
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:sigh: This really is annoying...
I suppose it would help if the program was called Win-7-Zip. But no. As one of the great legendary heroes has said: "Life sucks and then you ****in' die!".
How 'bout this logical conclusion:
7-Zip is open source.
FSO is open source.
FSO is nice.
FSO has no viruses.
-> 7-Zip is nice and has no viruses.
Edited because I just remembered that there are some legal complications that probably revoke the "free" status of FSO.
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no use IZArc.
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Hmm. A matter of preference. IZArc may support a load of formats, but most of those are really rare ones. I've never even seen a few of those before. 7-Zip opens up the ones used by this community with no hassle. And is, again, resource-friendly and fast.
IZArc has incomplete 7-Zip support
What have we here? That's bad. Bad. Not good. Especially since the 7z format is not all that uncommon around here.
Oh well. I do hope BTA has understood that his options are to either get some archive tool or not play any more campaigns. Since no one is going to start uploading zipped campaigns for his convenience.
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(just out of curiosity, is BTA ITA Master?) :nervous:
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(just out of curiosity, is BTA ITA Master?) :nervous:
:lol:
I was just thinking the same thing.
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(just out of curiosity, is BTA ITA Master?) :nervous:
:lol:
I was just thinking the same thing.
:shaking: There's always the possibility...
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Investigation reveals BTA registered approximately a month after ITA Master did... and stopped posting a day after ITA Master did.
Shuffling through ITA Master's old campaign pages, I just realised he wished himself good luck once.
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What if he has a Titan scenario and can't download stuff like 7-z ?
... Titan scenario? :wtf:
heh...
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He means "What if his parents are paranoid of anything non-MS and won't let him download any other programs".
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I've had WinRAR for years, and all that happens is that a "your eval. period has ended" message comes up if you actually open the exe, not if you use the shortcuts, and you can still use it anyway... :wtf: or you can put it on a CD Write only, so that it is always on day one of the eval. period (at least, I think this works).
Or you can just get 7-z. Call it -Win-7-z so it looks like MS, since it is for Windows...