Use this - Rufus J

The Unarchiver is a great and simple freeware utility you can install and set to be the default utility to decompress archives. zip is ancient and bz gives much higher compression and is supplanting zip as the standard in the Unix world. I don't remember about earlier versions of OS X, but the Apple supplied archive utility opens these without a hitch, btw.

The Unarchiver posted at VT:

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Friday, February 27 2009 @ 04:52 AM PST

Use this - rixstep

Rufus! OS X has built-in unzippers. Why are you using a third party one? Cheers.

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Friday, March 06 2009 @ 09:43 AM PST

All well and good... - rixstep

What's wrong with ZIP? Are you kidding? The new CNET interface doesn't allow alternative download URLs. Complain to Kurt. We have two more - CLIX.dmg and CLIX.zip - but we can no longer post them. ZIP? ZIP sucks. It's terrible. What's wrong with bzip2? Your system should recognise it. It's only been a net standard for about ten years now. Tiger and Leopard both recognise them OOTB. ;)

Cheers.

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Friday, February 27 2009 @ 04:56 AM PST

All well and good... - rixstep

Rufus is spot on. ZIp sucks. It's what Katz came up with when he was sued by the ARC people. Bzip2 is fantastic. Red Hat thing. Tiger and Leopard both support it. Thanks to Rufus.

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Friday, February 27 2009 @ 04:59 AM PST

oops... - Rufus J

I'm trying to be helpful, but VT stripped the URL from my post on submission. Search "The Unarchiver" in Versiontracker and install it and you'll be able to open all kinds of good stuff like .rar and .7z along with .tbz and .bz2 and that dinosaur, zip, and more.

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Friday, February 27 2009 @ 04:59 AM PST

oops... - rixstep

So VT has a client here? Oops! No - use a direct download. Screw VT for now.

ftp://rixstep.com/CLIX.tar.bz2
ftp://rixstep.com/CLIX.dmg
ftp://rixstep.com/CLIX.zip

Cheers.

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Friday, February 27 2009 @ 05:02 AM PST

All well and good... - rixstep

Your PPC definitely knows what bz2 is. It's got nothing to do with CPU architecture. Your OS X box has known what bz2 is for the past eight years (it's /usr/bin/bzip2). Now it may happen your 3rd party software doesn't know what bz2 is but that's neither Apple's nor Rixstep's fault, is it? Rufus has a good suggestion but I've got another: just double click the file in whatever file manager you're using. Best of luck.

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Friday, March 06 2009 @ 09:41 AM PST