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Title: Comforting message from 7za
Post by: motorollin on January 03, 2008, 02:15:00 PM
For the first time ever I needed to decompress a 7zip file. I downloaded 7za for OS X, opened up a terminal and decompressed the file. Once it had finished, I was presented with the following message:

"Everything is OK."

For some reason I found this utterly heart-warming and comforting :lol: I wonder if that was the developer's intention? :-)

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moto
Title: Re: Comforting message from 7za
Post by: bloodline on January 03, 2008, 05:26:14 PM
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motorollin wrote:
For the first time ever I needed to decompress a 7zip file. I downloaded 7za for OS X, opened up a terminal and decompressed the file. Once it had finished, I was presented with the following message:

"Everything is OK."

For some reason I found this utterly heart-warming and comforting :lol: I wonder if that was the developer's intention? :-)

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moto


Sounds like some developer was having a very bad night... then after hours of debugging things just worked :-)
Title: Re: Comforting message from 7za
Post by: cecilia on January 03, 2008, 07:22:43 PM
Are you refering to a varient of 7-zip??

I've used that and it's really nice. I can crack open exe files. WOOT!


and it comes portable (http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/7-zip_portable)
Title: Re: Comforting message from 7za
Post by: motorollin on January 03, 2008, 08:08:30 PM
Yes, it's 7-Zip. 7za is the *nix 7-Zip archiver. I didn't know it could open .exe archives. Will be handy to keep around for when I want to get some data out of a Windows app without having to install it under Parallels. Everything is OK :-D

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moto
Title: Re: Comforting message from 7za
Post by: Amiduffer on January 03, 2008, 08:18:48 PM
Pardon me Moto. I'm just curious. I've seen others do it too. When folks mention *nix, they put the mark on one of letters. Why is that?  :lol:
Title: Re: Comforting message from 7za
Post by: bloodline on January 03, 2008, 09:16:39 PM
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Amiduffer wrote:
Pardon me Moto. I'm just curious. I've seen others do it too. When folks mention *nix, they put the mark on one of letters. Why is that?  :lol:


It means Unix compatible... that is to say a Unix clone (ie Linux or *BSD), not the real unix operating system.
Title: Re: Comforting message from 7za
Post by: motorollin on January 03, 2008, 09:43:12 PM
Yes I know it's illogical, since I don't think any Unix compatible operating systems end with "nix". But it is a commonly used term for Unix-like OS.

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moto
Title: Re: Comforting message from 7za
Post by: HenryCase on January 04, 2008, 01:04:50 AM
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motorollin wrote:
I don't think any Unix compatible operating systems end with "nix".


Minix?
http://www.minix3.org/
Title: Re: Comforting message from 7za
Post by: motorollin on January 04, 2008, 09:47:59 AM
Well ok, let me rephrase that. There are OSs which fall within the "*nix" family which do not end in "nix", although some might. E.g. Linux is classed as a *nix OS, but it doesn't end with "nix".



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moto
Title: Re: Comforting message from 7za
Post by: AMC258 on January 05, 2008, 03:54:16 PM
(#?n?x)|(#?BSD)

Or, since OS4 allows * like apparently was intended in AmigaOS for a long time:

(*n?x)|(*BSD)

 :-D