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puppieluvr21
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22 Jun, 2005 12:01 pm question on mac decompressing/extract PC files? [sdp=59358]  
i wanted to download i believe compressed files like .zip or.rar or seomthing..however they are PC files. and is there a way i can decompress them on my mac and use them? i already tried stuffit expander but when i tried to expand it, there was an error message saying that the file didn't seem to be compressed and to try opeining it up with microsoft. so i said okay to try and when it opened it there was all these funky characters. so obviously that didn't work. is there just no way to download it?

ps. after i downloaded the files, they had the ending .package. is there a special way to decompress .package files? tahnks

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22 Jun, 2005 8:37 pm Re: question on mac decompressing/extract PC files? [sdp=59388]  
puppieluvr21 wrote:
i wanted to download i believe compressed files like .zip or.rar or seomthing..however they are PC files. and is there a way i can decompress them on my mac and use them? i already tried stuffit expander but when i tried to expand it, there was an error message saying that the file didn't seem to be compressed and to try opeining it up with microsoft. so i said okay to try and when it opened it there was all these funky characters. so obviously that didn't work. is there just no way to download it?

ps. after i downloaded the files, they had the ending .package. is there a special way to decompress .package files? tahnks
To decompress/extract files like .zip, .gz is easy, you can do that with Mac OS X's built-in features. For .rar, you will need a third party decompressor.
If the content is like text or video/music file, you should be able to use it. If the content is an application (for Windows), you will need to run Windows (under Virtual PC or similar) to use such file.

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23 Jun, 2005 8:29 am [sdp=59413]  
Actually, StuffIt Expander (included with Mac OS X) can extract .rar files Smile

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