We really should fix this... either directly in the Journal or in an unzip activity.
-walter On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Bert Freudenberg <b...@freudenbergs.de> wrote: > On 18.03.2009, at 13:43, Ro wrote: > > Hi! Thank you for all your suggestions. I also visit this pages and a read a > lot of, but I can't find the answer. > I download a book, it is compress, the XO let me open this book in Etoys and > I don't now how to do that. > > Oh, I understand now. Sugar on the XO laptop only poorly handles zip files. > This is not really an Etoys problem. I'm copying this message to the Sugar > list because it might be helpful to others, too. Folks, please cc Rosaura (a > teacher from Uruguay) if you intend her to get your reply. > Etoys is the only pre-installed activity that can open zip files. When you > click on a zip file in the Journal, it opens in Etoys, and Etoys shows a > little menu (probably in the upper-left corner): > > The second menu option "extract all to ..." opens a dialog: > > This is the folder that the files inside the zip will be extracted to. > Choose "tmp" which is near the bottom: > > Then press the "ok" button. This extracts the files to the folder named > "/tmp". > To be able to read them, you need to copy them to the Journal. Quit Etoys, > and open the "Terminal" activity. Type "cd /tmp" and "ls -l", and then use > the "copy-to-journal" command to make the book appear in the Journal: > > The "text/plain" part tells the Journal that this is a plain text file > (because its file name ends with ".txt"). If the book is in a different > format, you would have to tell the Journal a different type. For example > "text/html" if the book name is ending in ".html" or "application/pdf" if it > is ".pdf". > Hope this works for you, if not please report back. > - Bert - > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep