Sent by Rob Stevenson on 25 July 2002 13:01
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 Merkey, Brett said...
>From: "Merkey, Brett" [EMAIL-REMOVED]>
>To: CSS Discussion list [EMAIL-REMOVED]>
>Subject: RE: [css-d] Re: scrolling tables
>Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 10:43:13 -0400
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>| Just a note to others who may think to do this: EXE is a platform-
>| specific file format. If you wish to share something with
>| the platform-
>| agnostic web community, use a platform-agnostic file format.
>
>
>Yes, exactly. That is why I took pains to emphasize the files
>were for Windows in my post.
Hi Brett,
Sorry Brett, I missed that bit. <:-}
And Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst said...
>Any unzip tool should be able to handle self extracting zips:
>
>-% file *
>foo-rar.exe: MS-DOS executable (EXE), OS/2 or MS Windows
>foo.exe: MS-DOS executable (EXE), OS/2 or MS Windows
>
>-% unrar x foo-rar.exe
>Extracting foo.txt OK
>All OK
>
>-% unzip foo.exe
>Archive: foo.exe
> extracting: foo.txt
>
>Even in Windows I avoid running self extractors; I just use WinRar to
>extract the archive directly.
Eh?!?
I prefer to unzip files by dragging them over the UnStuffIt icon,
dropping them, then twiddling my thumbs for a few seconds. But to each
his own I guess. ;-)
Now I must run from the list mom for being so OT...............
Rob (running Mac OS 9.2)
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