Unzipping a .zip file

[Kwinnie Bogan]

I need a 3D modeling program for my course, but it's one that costs thousands upon thousands of dollars, so naturally I've pirated it. Problem here is that it came with Winrar installer & CCCP which are both great programs but the modeling program itself is compressed with an expired version of Winzip, and I'm sure as shit not going to pay for a copy of Winzip!

How the hell can I extract the program without forcing it (which comes with the risk of fucking it up). You can't crack Winzip can you? I'm going to try to Add/Remove programs then clear teh HDD of Winzip and download a new copy so it's back in evaluation period, the list is populating right no, but I think Winzip will have some little bit of code somewhere on the machine that prevents this.

Thanks.

[Sydney-Floyd]

comes with the risk of fucking it up?
make... backup copies?
I know nothing about this, feel free to textually bitchslap me back into line.

[ObsidianZ]

Since when did winrar not extract all types of winzip files?

This :confused:.


*ObZ

[Kwinnie Bogan]

> Yeah, I made a backup to CD.
> What, rename the file to .rar?

Re-installing Winzip is working anyway, extracting to HDD.

Thanks for the replies though <3.

[ObsidianZ]

Right click - open with - browse programs - winrar

You can make winrar your default program for all zips and rars, but I forget how.


*ObZ

[Vizier]

Download Winrar > Install it > Right click the .zip file > Extract to xxxx.zip/ > Enjoy.

[Dfg]

> Yeah, I made a backup to CD.
> What, rename the file to .rar?

Re-installing Winzip is working anyway, extracting to HDD.

Thanks for the replies though <3.

For the record, winzip and winrar are utilities and can removed, reinstalled, and upgraded without having any problems with the program they came with.

[Prometheum]

Breaking the law is a bad thing! You should use a free (as in free speech (http://fsf.org)) program like Blender instead to avoid breaking the law.

[Mutant Funk Drink]

If you're using a crack for some Autodesk program like Maya, you should go ahead with it. Normally I'd say that you either crack it yourself or use a free program, but Autodesk has a huge monopoly over the 3d and CAD industry. They deserve to be disassembled brick by brick.

[TLV]

winrar
7zip
pea zip

all will do it for free

[LiquidIce]

winrar
7zip
pea zip

all will do it for free

Especially 7zip. Even nicer than winrar.

[Agent 008]

Especially 7zip. Even nicer than winrar.

This. 7zip is awesome.

[Zip]

Breaking the law is a bad thing! You should use a free (as in free speech (http://fsf.org)) program like Blender instead to avoid breaking the law.

He's using it for his coursework so you can't really look at alternatives. The companies that produce this software understand that students can't afford the commercial versions so generally you can find student versions at very low cost. Autodesk in particular has a student site where you can download their software free of charge: http://students.autodesk.com

Also, Blender isn't really used in industry, the developers don't really intend to compete with commercial 3D modeling applications on a feature-by-feature basis. If he's talking about parametric solid modeling, e.g. SolidWorks or Inventor, there's not really anything comparable in open source unfortunately, mainly because the geometric modeling kernels like Parasolid are very complex and all are proprietary. I wouldn't expect to see serious open source development in this area for quite some time.

[Prometheum]

He's using it for his coursework so you can't really look at alternatives. The companies that produce this software understand that students can't afford the commercial versions so generally you can find student versions at very low cost. Autodesk in particular has a student site where you can download their software free of charge: http://students.autodesk.com

Also, those companies are quite willing to look the other way if they can create proprietary software addicts that will buy their forced upgrades for life.

[Jai614]

I don't know why other archive programs exist when winrar is all you need.
May I ask what 3D application you're using?

[Agent 008]

Also, those companies are quite willing to look the other way if they can create proprietary software addicts that will buy their forced upgrades for life.

You say that like it's a bad thing. Man, everyone is making money the way they can. Their software is making other companies - their customers - profit. Students get their software for free. Everybody's happy.

[Zip]

Welcome to America :)

I'm not averse to using proprietary software when I feel that a particular program is the best (or the only) tool for the job and the licensing cost appears to reasonably reflect the development and support costs, but unfortunately most companies only offer a single commercial licensing option apart from education and government options. There's a few exceptions: Microsoft and MySQL got tiered licensing right for smaller firms, and I feel that's why these companies are market leaders.

I'm hoping that open source will eventually become more relevant, especially for CAD/CAM and creative design. To levy some criticism on open source developers however, compatibility hasn't always been a top priority. Microsoft Office compatibility in OpenOffice.org could have seen much more resources dedicated to its development before Microsoft released their specifications.

Unfortunately things become more complicated when companies don't address the competition ethically. The development team at Autodesk produces technically very good software, but since TrustedDWG was implemented, warning users of stability issues if the file was edited outside an authorized Autodesk application, open source development stalled. Now the challenge is to replace the DWG libraries specifically, and going back to my argument on compatibility, it should be much higher priority on the FSF's list:

http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority.html

[The_Table_File]

What program is it that you are trying to un compress, give me the title.

[zuperxtreme]

Especially 7zip. Even nicer than winrar.

7zip has some things that annoy me, but over all I find it better than winrar. Specially unraring a large ammount of small files, it does it much faster than winrar.

[eSparq]

Specially unraring a large ammount of small files, it does it much faster than winrar.

That's funny since, last I checked, it used the same source code as WinRAR/unrar (which the publishers of the latter utilities released as sort-of open source -- the condition being that the users are not permitted to use the source code to try and reverse engineer the algorithm used to perform the compression).

[Clover]

> Yeah, I made a backup to CD.
> What, rename the file to .rar?

Re-installing Winzip is working anyway, extracting to HDD.

Thanks for the replies though <3.

Good god you are a fucking IDIOT! And now I remembered why I never venture into this shit hole of a forum.

[Kwinnie Bogan]

What are they going to do? Nothing? Suits me fine :cool: