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Re: Portable installers are "tarbombs"
Posted: 12 Jun 2010 19:24
by zer0
ramza__x wrote:Sadly, learn the basic before you complain... get familiar with archive tools!
One does not need archive tools on XP or later as Zip support is included...and extracts it to a separate folder by default.
Re: Portable installers are "tarbombs"
Posted: 12 Jun 2010 22:05
by vegard
ramza__x wrote:Sadly, learn the basic before you complain... get familiar with archive tools!
Thank you for your input.
1. Tar-bomb, a real word and a real concept.
Extracting to the current directory not only clutters it, but risks overwriting it with common filenames, such as readme.txt etc..
2. "Sub-bomb", an invented word which appears to me to have no meaning
Extracting to a subdirectory of the packer's chosing helps prevent any overwrites of existing files, and is commonly used by for example the packer specifying this directory as "xyplorer_9.20".
Thank you, come again (also everybody should have their mouse taken away from them for at least a month so that they could learn how to use a computer).
Re: Portable installers are "tarbombs"
Posted: 13 Jun 2010 08:37
by admin
I invented "Sub-bomb" for undesired creation of subfolders by archivers.
Re: Portable installers are "tarbombs"
Posted: 13 Jun 2010 09:25
by j_c_hallgren
admin wrote:I invented "Sub-bomb" for undesired creation of subfolders by archivers.
And I've had that happen, and then had to move all the stuff where I wanted it cause I couldn't seem to get it done via the zip pgm...this was with other software, not XY.