unzipping a file
 

I downloaded a file that is a printing program. I am unsure as to how to unzip it to copy to cd. I am a bit of a novice on the pc.

What extension does the file have?

Ivan
In the dark we make a brighter light

extension
 

It doesn't seem to have one. It is Am***n ****s *** print

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Have you tried drag & drop to winzip. Else Aladdin has Stuffit Expander for windows that can unzip files & is free for the purpose of uncompressing files.

It has no extension??? Check the file properties. Is it declared as zip or rar or whatever?


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SIDE NOTE: The "it doesn't seem to have one" part is possibly due to the OS settings: some OSs have an option to show or not extensions: if this option is set to not show, then you are a little more likely to get a virus masked into a file simply because if tit has a double extension (like "file.html.exe") you will only see the extension that seems ok.

Excellent point Murasami!!! See this: http://www.gnutellaforums.com/showth...9587#post99587
Oh I just realise that link doesn't apply here. But Murasami's suggestion is extremely valid. I think somewhere you can reveal whole extension names but I don't know/can't remember how. Ask a windows user!

You could also try duplicating the file (as a back up) & manually typing in the zip extension.

Or (as well as making a backup) as 10904org suggested go to Properties & add details there.

Yes, there is an option to show all extensions. You have to go to Folder Options. You can also check the description, it says what kind of file it is (if it says "Application, the extension is .exe, etc.") If it says "file", then the file doesn't have indeed an extension.

Ivan
In the dark we make a brighter light

Sorry to be pedantic backmann but I thought all files have an extension depending upon their general type whether it's visible or not. (Remembering from my early windows days & dos & c/pm.)

No. You can have files without extensions. I just renamed a file deleting its extension. It just appeared as "file" in the description. Then I did the same from DOS to check it.

Ivan
In the dark we make a brighter light

Huh.

Last time I was on a XP PC, I remember some files having deleted extensions (filename was something like: "file" instead of: "file.ext")
Thing is that XP still "knew" what the file was, meaning that the OS kept a record which told it that this or that file has no apparent extension, but it's format is ".ext"
Get my point?
OS X does that (I always delete the extensions of my files since I always rename them) but if you save a file without extension, then it won't know what it is. For example, if you download something via a BitTorrent client and when asked how you want to save the file, if you rename it from "file.avi" to just "file", OS X won't know what is is.

Backmann is right, if a file has no extention windows sees it as a "file"
And Murasame, i think you are pointing at the "hide extentions for known files"
option you have in the explorer settings.
In that case the file does have a extention, but windows has hidden it, so when you launch it, windows knows indeed what to do with it.
But if you rename a file and strip the extention, windows has no clue what it is.

If I had a file without a extention, I would try WinRar for starters, then 2nd IsoBuster, my 3rd option would be Gspot and notepad as last.