That would surely explain it if we had a non-Win32 version of the product he's trying to install :-) Phil Harris wrote:
Surely the reason for using tar/gzip is for portability.
The same archive is usable on *nix and Win32.
|>-----Original Message----- |>From: mcdonc@mcdonc.dyndns.org [mailto:mcdonc@mcdonc.dyndns.org]On |>Behalf Of Chris McDonough |>Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 6:56 AM |>To: rgeiger@bellsouth.net; zope@zope.org |>Subject: Re: [Zope] Problem with ZODBCDA installation. |> |> |>When WinZip opens the file it comes up with a dialog something like: |> |>This file contains a compressed archive. Do you want to open it in a |>temporary directory? |> |>Say yes. Then you'll have the winzip screen that should show a bunch of |>files in it. Press Extract. |> |>When it asks you where you want to extract to, choose the Zope top-level |>folder by browsing through the dir trees. Make sure the option to |>"expand with folder names" (or something like that) is checked before |>you hit OK. |> |>Hit OK. |> |>It will write all the files out. You should end up with a directory in |>your lib\python\Products folder that is named something like "ZODBCDA" |>which contains files that belong to the ZODBC adapter (such as |>__init__.py and others). |> |>When you restart Zope, the database adapter should show up in the list |>of products. |> |>The main gist here is that the gz file you download contains only one |>file, which is a "tar" archive. Tar is a UNIX format that stands for |>tape archive. It's an old, old format that has a long legacy. But you |>don't need to know much about it. All you really need to know is that |>it contains files and directories that need to be written out to disk. |>The tar archive isn't compressed. Gzip does this for us. |> |>I imagine we don't use the ZIP file format because tar and gzip are so |>familiar to us, and we use these formats for all our other |>distributions. |> |>I suggest reading the WinZip help stuff for more info. You're going to |>run into this again. |> |> |>Robert Geiger wrote: |>> |>> I used Winzip on the gz file. What I don't understand is why |>this would be |>> saved in a compressed format that, although supported in the |>latest version |>> of winzip, is not the defacto standard ZIP file format so familiar to |>> Windoze users??? It would be friendlier to previous versions |>of Winzip. |>> Just a thought. |>> |>> I still don't know exactly what to do with this file, so if you have any |>> ideas, please let me know. Thanks for your assistance. |>> |>> -----Original Message----- |>> From: mcdonc@mcdonc.dyndns.org [mailto:mcdonc@mcdonc.dyndns.org]On |>> Behalf Of Chris McDonough |>> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 9:06 PM |>> To: rgeiger@bellsouth.net |>> Cc: Zope |>> Subject: Re: [Zope] Problem with ZODBCDA installation. |>> |>> Did you untar and ungzip it? Download WinZip and doubleclick it, |>> expanding it into your top-level Zope folder. |>> |>> Robert Geiger wrote: |>> > |>> > I have followed the directions with the ODBC adapter to no |>avail. I place |>> > it in the top level zope dir on NT server machine and |>restart. This is |>> all |>> > the instructions say to do. I do not see the adapter. What else do I |>> have |>> > to do to get this to work??? |>> > |>> > Thanks in advance for any assistance. |>> > |>> > _______________________________________________ |>> > Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org |>> > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope |>> > ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** |>> > (Related lists - |>> > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce |>> > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) |>> |>> -- |>> Chris McDonough |>> Digital Creations, Inc. |>> Zope - http://www.zope.org |> |>-- |>Chris McDonough |>Digital Creations, Inc. |>Zope - http://www.zope.org |> |>_______________________________________________ |>Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org |>http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope |>** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** |>(Related lists - |> http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce |> http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ) |>
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