![]() ![]() ![]() What’s needed here is p7zip, a port for POSIX systems like Unix. v4.5 (can do v2.1)Īs it turns out, the well-meaning sender - through no fault of their own - has compressed the archive using 7-Zip, a popular Windows decompression engine, and, unfortunately, the built-in Mac OS X ZIP engine cannot unarchive the binary. I receive for my troubles a list of all the files in the archive…as they are skipped. To the command-line! I open Terminal and type the blissfully human-readable command to unzip the archive: Or, a second copy of the original file I received. I double-click it but instead of an uncompressed archive named archive emerging out of the other end, I get this:Ĭonfused, I double-click again and a third file appears: CPGZ file is a compressed archive file format that is used to store software, apps, documents, movies, and other types of data files. Let’s say I receive an archive named, creatively, archive.zip. With those it’s usually a quick double-click and onto the task at hand. Most users are more comfortable with a GUI for archiving and wind up sending a ZIP file. Those who prefer the command-line (usually other developers) will TAR the directory then GZIP the TAR. ![]() I receive a lot of compressed archives, from a wide variety of different users. ![]()
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