Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: two JARs Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:59:35 -0800 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <69022de5-1be1-42a1-8c2b-2c5c8f96d532@googlegroups.com> <5e625e1e-0f7b-428b-abc9-bc9c35790e30@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: K2Qzzs3EAqXk5RLzfhxcSw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:22437 On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:25:37 -0800 (PST), Lew wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >What if he's not using Windows? jar.exe is more designed for building jars than exploring them. WinZip works on jars and lets you explore and selectively extract visually. Granted it only works Windows, and the latest version 17 is suffering so badly from irrelevant featuritis I refused to upgrade. He could also use JarLook http://mindprod.com/products1.html#JARLOOK if he just want a quick idea of what was in there Jar files are for all practical purposes also ZIP files, so he could use the Unix analog of WinZip. I don't think you would find many Unix users as raw as OP. My guess he is a newbie Windows user. Why the implication I had never heard of jar.exe? You know that is not true. Please just give your excellent advice without feeling compelled to decorate it with a putdown. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. ~ Robert R. Coveyou (born: 1915 died: 1996-02-19 at age: 80)