rec.autos.simulators

The sim is definitely living up to all the hype I used to read from
the rabid GPL'ers here on ras some time ago.

Thanks to all that offered advice, things to try, etc. It turned out
to be a combination of needing the right patches as well as having
suffering from a big dose of Operator Error.

Now that I'm gleefully skidding across the track and into the fence...
I have dedcided that I wouldn't mind sampling some downloaded car
sounds. They're in a zip file... BUT... I can't seem to figure out
this new-fangled XP unzip feature.

I'm SUPPOSED to be able to simply unzip the file to my
sierra/gpl/sounds folder, and it is SUPPOSED to do its thing.

Well, this XP unzip program didn't.

Previously with Winzip, I used to be able to hit "Extract" on the
Winzip program window, and tell it to extract to, say,
c:\sierra\gpl\sounds\*.wav... and the prog would ask if I want to
overwrite the existing files... I would click "Yes", and it was a done
deal.

How do I get this wimpy XP zip function to place these files in the
sounds folder correctly?

Anybody know?

Thanks for any tips.

Andre Ming

All I have been able to figure out is to unzip into a temp dir and then drag
them where I want them  by hand.  For some reason when you point to a dir to
unzip them into it creates a dir named after the zip (in the dir you pointed
to) and puts the files there.

Elrikk (Mike Kay)

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I get around this by not using the inbuilt feature at all, as you're
right - it's not very good. I think WinZip works OK with XP - certainly
the excellent PowerArchiver does, which is what I use.

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