On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 18:48 +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > The obnoxious file-roller program can read them. File-roller is part of > > the obnoxious GNOME desktop, clearly. > > Not sure what you're getting at, but thanks for the tip. Unfortunately > you're wrong at least for my version of gnome, where file-roller seems > to be GUI facade without guts: > > /bin/sh: unstuff: command not found
Hrm, was just reading the help documentation - didn't actually read through the code ;) > Googling for it right at the top finds a commercial supplier but not a > lot in the line of Linux extractor programs. But the answer to my > question is here: > > http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Apps/stuffit-archives.html > > Easy to see why .bin is an obnoxious format. Unpacking a tar or zip just > works, as well as a raft of other archive/compression formats. You could always download the trial version, which gives you 15 days without being asked to register - I'm sure you won't be dealing with .bin's every day of the week!? Of course it probably requires a different version of glibc, and probably doesn't have a nice packaging format ;) > I also know why I don't much like gnome apps. File-roller can't even > remember the last directory it opened a file from. I love > click-me-to-death GUIs. Not. Hence obnoxious - but you filed a bug in bugzilla.gnome.org, right? Glynn
