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Re: HPUX utility to read Windows-produced RAR and WinZIP files?

 
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Michael Mike Reaser
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Re: HPUX utility to read Windows-produced RAR and WinZIP files?

Steven S.> It wouldn't hurt (much) to have all these tools (or at least bzip2 and Info-ZIP UnZip) lying around, so that you could see pretty easily which ones actually _do_ work. (Reality tends to be more reliable than advice, too.)

I'd love to do so. However, in my present position I'm not a system administrator, my employer is a financial services company so getting permission to install New Stuff on our HPUX servers practically takes an Act Of Gawd, and thus I need ot be precise and selective with what packages I request for our systems. :-/
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Steven Schweda
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Re: HPUX utility to read Windows-produced RAR and WinZIP files?

> I'd love to [...]

If your system administrator retards your
work with restrictive policies, perhaps you
should notify him. Or, if you can get to a
C compiler and "make", build the stuff
yourself. None of these things needs to be
installed by a deity in order to work.
(What's your job worth, really?)
Michael Mike Reaser
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Re: HPUX utility to read Windows-produced RAR and WinZIP files?

Steven:> If your system administrator retards your work with restrictive policies...

Actually, it's not the sys admins who are restricting me. As I said earlier in this thread, our company is a financial services company, and as such we need a utility that conforms to all possible security audits from any of the financial networks to which we connect - and "open source software" has sent our in-house security folks and auditors into a tizzy. :-(
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Michael Mike Reaser
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Re: HPUX utility to read Windows-produced RAR and WinZIP files?

A-Ha! Hidden away on our systems was /opt/java1.5/bin/jar which, in combination with some binary FTPs and several dos2ux commands, seems to fit our needs.

The directory /opt/java1.5/bin needs to be added to /etc/PATH and/or however the PATH variable is being setup at login time thru our convoluted scripts, which is much simpler than giving our security, networking and admin folks collective coronaries. :-)
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Steven Schweda
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Re: HPUX utility to read Windows-produced RAR and WinZIP files?

> [...] and several dos2ux commands [...]

UnZip has a "-a[a]" option, which could
obviate the dos2ux effort, but I'll admit
that it is (dreaded) "open source software"
(whose defects can be seen and repaired as
needed).