[tpicco]

Okay... this PC guy can't accept my .sit files, so he told me to download the free sample test of RAR for OSX and I could stuff the files with that and send them to him... Oooookay... so I download it, and when I double click on the RAR file, a program called Terminal opens up. Huh?

How do I use this to compress files? It seems to imply I'm supposed to type 'a' to 'add files to archive' but I don't even have an archive yet... Man I am a moron... This is UNIX, yes?

Can anyone give me a way to use RAR to archive these damn files? I know squat about UNIX... i've tried opening Terminal shells and typing commands to no avail...

is there a trick?

Hellllllllp... please?


Or barring that, is there a free Zip program for Macs? He could accept .zip, but all I own is Stuffit.

[tpicco]

ok.. nevermind... I found this: http://www.maczipit.com/

But, what the heck was all that Terminal & UNIX stuff about???

[Thinine]

If you have Tiger you can create zip files from the contextual menu you get from a folder or file. Search macupdate.com for other compression utilities if you need them. I'm not sure why Terminal opened up for the .rar file but Terminal is your interface to OS X's UNIX layer. You shouldn't need to ever use it unless you want to.

[tpicco]

ok... I don't have Tiger... I got 10.3.9... what kind of a difference does that make?