On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 16:51:37 -0500, John Laubenheimer wrote: > It appears that the file was zipped using the 7-Zip utility; 7-Zip opens the > file nicely. This was probably done (accidentally?) because 7-Zip can create > a smaller file, reducing the time required to download, as well as reducing > the impact on the server. > >To me, this is somewhat bad technique on IBM's part. This doesn't seem to have >been documented anywhere, and requiring a 3rd party utility to read the file >is not really a good idea. But, 7-Zip works (and is free)! > The only non-third party utility I can think of that can open a zip is "jar". Is that what you mean? (And it might be a good validation.)
>Attn. Marna ... can you speak to this, and maybe get this corrected? > BTW, what's the URL? I always get lost looking for it. Thanks, gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
