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  willyfoo says Dec 25, 2008 04:56AM

  winrar managed to unpack it to a single 472mb file.. but can't open it any furthur.
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  cl0udi3 asks Dec 25, 2008 04:57AM

  do u want me to try?
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  willyfoo says Dec 25, 2008 04:59AM

  with a 237mb file?
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  cl0udi3 says Dec 25, 2008 04:59AM

  or u can try using 7-zip
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  willyfoo says Dec 25, 2008 04:59AM

  i'll try 7-zip now
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  cl0udi3 says Dec 25, 2008 05:00AM

  7-zip is so far the most powerful unzipping s/w i've used
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  willyfoo says Dec 25, 2008 05:02AM

  nope.. extracted to 461mb and asked what app I wanted to open this file up with.
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  willyfoo says Dec 25, 2008 05:02AM

  i suspect the file is a tar.gz file..
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  willyfoo says Dec 25, 2008 05:02AM

  so the archivers unzipped it.. which windows app handles tarballs?
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  willyfoo says Dec 25, 2008 05:05AM

  still no.. renamed it *.tar and winrar icon appeared.. means winrar can handle tar but shows unrecognised format
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  willyfoo says Dec 25, 2008 05:05AM

  or private message me a ftp account and I can upload there.
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  cl0udi3 says Dec 25, 2008 05:06AM

  try this www.gzip.org/
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  cl0udi3 says Dec 25, 2008 05:06AM

  this might help u too www.tech-pro.net/howto-open-gz-file.html
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  hendri says Dec 25, 2008 05:52AM

  try IZArc? It can handle .tar.gz pretty well.
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  miccheng says Dec 25, 2008 07:48AM

  7zip doesn't extract gzip files directly it seems. It extracts to tar. And u have to untar that file again with 7zip.
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  cl0udi3 wonders Dec 25, 2008 07:50AM

  if willyfoo has managed to extract the files
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  Yuhui asks Dec 25, 2008 03:30PM

  a basic question: what's the 461MB file's extension?
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  willyfoo says Dec 25, 2008 10:35PM

  no extension
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  Yuhui says Dec 26, 2008 01:47AM

  if this is on a Mac, drag the file into Text Editor and look for clues about the application that was used and/or file type.