<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Luxi Sans'; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On March 18, 2009, Bert Freudenberg wrote:<br>
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> Etoys is the only pre-installed activity that can open zip files. When<br>
> you click on a zip file in the Journal, it opens in Etoys, and Etoys<br>
> shows a little menu (probably in the upper-left corner):<br>
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> The second menu option "extract all to ..." opens a dialog:<br>
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> This is the folder that the files inside the zip will be extracted to.<br>
> Choose "tmp" which is near the bottom:<br>
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> Then press the "ok" button. This extracts the files to the folder<br>
> named "/tmp".<br>
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> To be able to read them, you need to copy them to the Journal. Quit<br>
> Etoys, and open the "Terminal" activity. Type "cd /tmp" and "ls -l",<br>
> and then use the "copy-to-journal" command to make the book appear in<br>
> the Journal:<br>
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> The "text/plain" part tells the Journal that this is a plain text file<br>
> (because its file name ends with ".txt"). If the book is in a<br>
> different format, you would have to tell the Journal a different type.<br>
> For example "text/html" if the book name is ending in ".html" or<br>
> "application/pdf" if it is ".pdf".<br>
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> Hope this works for you, if not please report back.<br>
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> - Bert -<br>
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