There is shareware for the Mac that can open .zip files.

Josh

Christoph Hormann wrote:

> Rune wrote:
> >
> > I have some general questions about compression.
> >
> > I don't know much about different platforms. Is the .zip format accessible
> > on all platforms? I always zip all my scene files before I upload them to my
> > website, but does that exclude some people from using them?
> >
>
> I think ZIP is quite universal, don't know about Macs, but DOS, Windows,
> OS/2 and most unix'es are ok.  C-source for ZIP is available, so there
> should be some version on most platforms.  TGZ (.tar.gz) is also widely
> supported, but it's much less common on the Windows platforms, so it would
> not be such a good idea.  BTW, it's much more efficient when packing a lot
> of smaller files.
>
> I personnaly don't see much need to compress single pov code files, since
> otherwise you can directly view them and have less work when downloading.
>
> Christoph
>
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> Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
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> things on: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/

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