Tim,
The point/problem here is that it's ridiculous to make a SEA which will generally tie the files to a platform. If it had simply been archived a straight RAR, everyone could enjoy and it.?I hope the .exe archive might have been done by accident. As a side note on SEA's, In the past, I archive a lot of large job files using that. However, now that the operating system and processor architecture has ?changes so much, I can no longer open those SEA's. No loss as the files are old, but I don't do SEA's any more ;) JoeG -----Original Message----- From: Tim McCarthy <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, Sep 30, 2009 7:59 pm Subject: [Papermodels II 40233] Re: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang model Are we repeating the original thread here? I seem to recall that this was the original thrust of the talk when the model came out. ? Anyway...I'm a Win guy, not a Mac kid. The only solutions I can offer are: ? 1. If there is a Mac RAR archive program then it _might_ be able to decode the exe file as a simple RAR file. 2. Waddya sayin? Doesn't the Mac have?a "Win" something or other emulator that allows you to run Win apps? Seriously, I think there is a program on the Mac?that will run windows apps and the RAR?program is nothing special so it should run fine under an emulator. A PITA, I agree, but there you go. If things were reversed, I couldn't run a Mac app on Vista or any other version of Windows I have. 3. We need to shout out to the author here and see if we can get a simple RAR archive. IIRC, the reason for the format was that the PDF file size exceeded his upload/download limits. The resultant PDF file is 5.15 Mb. ? When I compress the PDF to a RAR I get a 3.3 Mb file.?Zip give me 3.44 Mb. So I'm guessing neither of these gets him below a 1 Mb file size limit. ? Finally, what is our policy here on using private mail??I don't want to circumvent his site traffic but?we don't want to let technology block getting this model getting out. So... ? Hey Mike! ? What are your thoughts here? Any chance someone could drop a note to the author (what is the native language there?) and ask what he thinks? ? Tim? ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 6:26 PM Subject: [Papermodels II 40231] Re: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang model In a message dated 9/30/09 2:37:45 PM, [email protected] writes: The model is a self extracting RAR file. The first file is the program (EXE) to extract the archive file. Which means us MAC operators are out of luck? Bob Penikas --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
