Note to dumb-dumb:
Nobody is listening to you.
Stop trying to get attention like a child.
"hopper" <Troll5layer@win.win.invalid> wrote in message
news:61a9h5566ofvidlj77nfc8vnikodmnuv6t@4ax.com...
> Survivor 18 <happy2b@home.net>:sayth:
>>Cannot open this file. Tried to unzip and got a message about
>>inserting a disk. What am I doing wrong?
>>
>>Thanks, Survivor
>
> mmmmmmmm... short answer?
> A number of things a true survivor would not do.
>
> Really any REQ starts with *you* the requestor.
> As much as a poster has to think about what they post,
> the requestor has a responsibility to also put thought to
> making the request.
> I been around a while so I figured what you were after..
> loooong before HD posted that file to ABCP. Something
> the lady should not have done. We have had our issues with
> "Battle of the Warez".. ABCP gained nothing.
> I digress...
> Winzip is not going to help you in ABCP or indeed in
> the majority of Usenet binary froups.
> Simply put... Winzip is redundant.
> The tool required for packing files is WinRaR.
> There is a "good to go" copy in the tutorials posted.
>
> Buuut lets assume you have another use for Zip format,
> and do indeed require a war3z upload/file retrieval.
> What do you do?
> There are a number of people lurking here who have quite
> extensive collections of war3z. A request that went like
> "Is someone able to upload a working copy of Winzip
> somewhere and point me to it, please".. is the safest course
> of action for everyone.
>
> Do the REQ how you did and you see the result.
> A newbie poster who thinks they are "doing the right thing"..
> (and only because they haven't read the advice published in the tutorials)
> pumps a readily available chunk of war3z into ABCP.. brilliant..NOT.
>
> Slip over to <alt.binaries.dominion.moms.computer>
> and look for:
> Subject: ere come de mail with - Envelope.n.Stamp.zip (1/6)
> That post is a "no registration required" copy of Winzip ver8.1
>
> To get the tutorials downloaded you can do what you are doing
> now and use a trial version of WinRaR. Downloads are everywhere
> on the Net.
> I would strongly advise you do that rather than continue with
> WinZip, particularly if you are that same person posting designs
> in Zip format here (ABCP).. this site is arching those posts, forever it
> seems.
> http://www.usenet-replayer.com/cgi/content/archive?
>
> cheers
>
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