Often the sheer amount of filetypes and naming schemes in the world of downloading can be overwhelming at first glance. There are your standard compressed archives, often in RAR or ZIP filetype. Then you might have an SFV for checking. Usenet 1-ups this by adding yet another extension type, PARs, which are for checking and recovery too. (this FAQ assumes Windows PC apps) RAR: Opens with WinRAR. Standard for compressed archives, often broke into multiple parts. This might be .rar, .r01, .

As you may have noticed most of the files on Falling Pixel are compressed using either the .rar or .zip extension. To open .zip files in Windows XP or later simply double click them and explorer will open them; just remember to extract the file before opening it (move it to another folder). For .rar files, or for .zip files on other operating systems there are several freeware applications to open and extract these files; including winRAR and winZIP.

RAR (.rar) files are created by WinRAR archiver. This format makes it easy to create multipart volumes and therefore it is easy to split large files into parts using WinRAR. This is the preferred format for posting of compressed files on the Usenet. Posting in other formats, such as zip and ice does happen, but is strongly discouraged. Generally, posting compressed files in the News does not seem to be a very good idea, especially posting images.

In general, no. Compression is pretty useless for MP3s because they're already compressed. There are occasions, due to posting difficulties, when people will break their MP3s into distinct sections using one of these formats. But for the most part, you'll just post them as MP3s.

RAR and ACE are both alternatives to ZIP, which we feel are better formats. You can get the appropriate programs to extract these types of archives files here:

Most of the files that can be downloaded from Sorcerer's Place are compressed to save on space and bandwidth. This means that once you download them, you need a program that can extract, or decompress them. We recommend WinRAR, as it supports creation and extraction of both .zip and .rar files.

Most emulators can play zipped up rom files, however you can use Winzip to extract them if you wish. To extract the iso files before burning/mounting, you will need to download all the required parts and then extract them using Winrar.

Zip is the PC equivlent of .sit. It's the PC standard. Asking PC users to download a app (most have never heard of Unstuffit) to decompress my files is likely to get me 100 complaining emails a week asking where the .zip files are and as Mac users CAN open .zip as easily as .sit without downloading ANYTHING - I figured this was the easiest way. MAC USERS: StuffIt Expander will unzip a .zip as effortlessly as it will unsuff a .sit. Just double click your downloaded files like you do normally.

If you want a free program, you could try the open source Info-Zip software available at <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/tools/zip/info-zip/> for Mac, MS-DOS, Unix, Windows and just about everything else you might have. If you want a commercial program, PKZIP from <http://www.pkware.com> and WinZip from <http://www.winzip.com> are among many popular shareware utilities that allow you to unzip files.

NO. We are an Internet Service Provider and have no control or knowledge of passwords to specific files. Usually, if there is a password that means that the owner of the file does not want others to see it’s contents.

That question is beyond the scope and relevancy of this FAQ. Read the instructions or the help files for your CD-R software, or try the newsgroups: comp.publish.cdrom.hardware, alt.comp.periphs.cdr or alt.cdrom There is also some information available on the WWW. There is a good CD-R FAQ at: http://www.fadden.com/cdrfaq/ and the comp.publish.cdrom FAQ is available at: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/cdrom/cd-recordable/part1/faq.html

The ActionKits are compressed in Zip format. You will need an unzipper such as WinZip (Windows) or Stuffit Expander (Mac) to decompress the Zip archive. To download an ActionKit, click on the Download ActionKit link which appears on the description page for each ActionKit, then open it in your unzipping program. Extract the .atn file and save it to the Photoshop folder on your computer.

Your information and notes about your study in paranormal phenomena MUST be questioned because your family is trying to raise money to rescue an old, historic double-decker bus." I saw you're trying to sell adspace online in order to try and rescue an old bus. How can I trust your notes about your studies in areas of the paranormal?" Apparently, this blog and the attached website(s) are RUINING MY CREDIBILITY in a study that is COMPLETELY REMOVED from them.

Now you've got to run the images through an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program. Again, there are too many programs out there to give useful specific directions for them all. You will need to wind up at the same place though the path you take may be different. If you don't have an OCR package, you can take advantage of the DP OCR Pool. Other DP volunteers who do have OCR packages are more than happy to OCR images on your behalf.

When the file is deleted into Recycle Bin it is not actually deleted. It is just moved to \Recycler (or \Recycled) folder and renamed in such a way that many files from different folders but with the same name can be placed there. Information on original names with original location of files is kept in registry. After deleting file from Recycled Bin there is no way to recover original name and location.

If you have used the Quick and Easy transformation protocol it is likely that your yeast source was too old. Try the Standard protocol with your plasmid as well as the plasmid provided in the kit. This will give you better results. If you have used this high efficiency procedure, it is likely that there is a problem with your SC-minus drop-out medium that selects for the transformed yeast cells. Check the medium recipe against the strain genotype.

You can try looking for a .zip or a .tar.gz archive in the directory that contains the files of interest, or in its parent directory. If you don't find one, however, the answer is no. It is necessary to keep individual files available, and maintaining redundant copies of these files within archives, or creating them on demand, would not be the best use of available resources. There are excellent alternatives, however, to downloading many files one at a time using a web browser.

From version 9.0, PowerArchiver supports the latest ZIP AES standards. More information can be found on the features page.

Well i zip files because it lowers the file size by a little bit and I can attach the Readme file you see as to prevent people from taking links and allowing visitors to find out about my site if a link is stolen! Remember to use Gozilla only as Getright MAY CORRUPT Files!

I have decided to try this for a while. However, if this increases the bandwidth too much this file will be removed. The majority of the restaurants are regional. Most people use only 5-10% of the restaurants. So it is a waste of the bandwidth and the download time. In addition, there are 400+ restaurants. So one zip the file contains 400+ files with abbrivated file names so they work within List/WWcalc.