MY GPL LIVES!!

If you read my original post whining about me, GPL, and XP... well... all is well and it's up and running! 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

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> If you read my original post whining about me, GPL, and XP... well... > all is well and it's up and running! > > 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)

L.A. Ming ([email hidden]) wrote on 11 May 2002: <snip> > How do I get this wimpy XP zip function to place these files in > the sounds folder correctly?<snip> 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. -- "After all, a mere thousand yards... such a harmless little knoll, really" - Raymond Mays on Shelsley Walsh. The GPL Scrapyard: Back again! http://www.btinternet.com/~gplscrapyard