On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 11:45:04 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 11:30:44 -0400, Kevin Mckenzie wrote: > >>Assuming 7-Zip will treat an ISO file like an archive, you should be able >>to right-click on the ISO file and choose "Extract All." Make sure you do >>it to a subdirectory, and not to, say, your desktop. >> >At which point the provider would better have provided .ZIP: extractors >are more readily available and the archive takes less space. > >Or a .tar or a .tar.Z, either of which can be extracted in a stream >from a suitable network client so the archive need never reside >locally. (Are there streaming extractors for .ZIP?) > >-- gil > The "jar" command (JAVA archive tool) will extract from stdin, which can be a network stream. The jar format is just another name for ZIP, so it should work. wget -O - http://url/file.zip | jar x -- John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
