*.z

[homer15]

i just downloaded some stuff off an ftp site, and everything has a .Z extension. it opens with winzip, but then it asks me to add an extension to the file. it wants me to do this for all eleventy-billion of them. does anyone know a faster way of doing this?

[doctorgonzo]

Open up command prompt, go to the folder, and type

ren *.z *.zip

[homer15]

thanks doc, but it asks me to add the extension to what is inside the zip file. it opens just fine after that.
is there a quck way to unzip like a thousand zip files and extract them to the same spot?

[doctorgonzo]

Ah, I get it now. With WinRAR, you can select a bunch of zipped files, right-click-drag them to a new folder, and extract them all at once. Is that helpful?

[homer15]

nah, that didn't do it. winrar won't read the .z extension as a valid extension, and when i swap them to .zip, it won't read it at all. thanks though. anyone else?

[aym]

I had a similar problem when opening Linux compressed files (*.tar.gz) using WinZip, however, WinAce was able to open them just fine.

[glc]

That's a Unix compressed file - you are missing something.

[homer15]

oh yea, i think i know what i'm missing... unix.
winzip can open it, and if i give it an extension like .doc, i can extract it and read it just fine. i'll try winace.

[Demosthenes]

Funny, it works fine for me on my WinZip. All version should support the unix algorithms like .gz, tar.gz, tar.Z .

If anything, use gunzip from gzip.org for an easy command line program.

Respectfully,

Demosthenes