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That's a hoot!!! Made my day.

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Funny you mention *jar* - it's just *zip* in disguise, but with *tar* CLI. On
my incredibly crippled AIX box at work, we use *jar* is we want to *unzip*
(non-Java-related) zip files!!!

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Funny you mention jar - it’s just zip in disguise, but with tar CLI.
On
my incredibly crippled AIX box at work, we use jar is we want to unzip
(non-Java-related) zip files!!!

Why is your AIX box crippled, anyway? :slight_smile: Just because it
runs AIX, or other reasons?

Hal

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Funny you mention jar - it’s just zip in disguise, but with tar CLI.
On
my incredibly crippled AIX box at work, we use jar is we want to unzip
(non-Java-related) zip files!!!

Why is your AIX box crippled, anyway? :slight_smile: Just because it
runs AIX, or other reasons?

Hal

Not becasue it’s AIX, but because the command-line tools are dinosaurs. I’ve
heard it’s the same with a default Solaris installation: to make it usable, you
install the GNU replacements, but there’s NO WAY the management here would do
that. We’ve compiled a few tools in our home directory: vim, date, grep [see
below], but you can’t do that forever.

e.g. ‘grep’ can’t handle lines of more than 2K characters, ‘date’ doesn’t
understand “-d ‘1 day ago’”, etc. Plus all the man pages just *suck.

So we use ‘jar’ to unzip things because there’s no ‘unzip’ installed.

Gavin

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From: “Hal E. Fulton” hal9000@hypermetrics.com