RE: [Sheflug] Java Archive

["French, Alastair" <nospam [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have just tried this out and a random selection of .jar file scan be read
by Winzip (I'm stuck on Win machine at work), so gzip should work on them.

Alastair

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex nospam [at] alexhudson.com]
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 9:42 AM
To: nospam [at] list.sheflug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Java Archive


On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 09:34:51AM +0000, Craig Andrews wrote:
> Assuming you have Java 1.3 or higher, just doing:
> 
> java -jar <jarfile>.jar
> 
> should run the package.

Something inside me says you don't need Java; at least if you
just want to peek inside. I'm fairly sure they're just renamed
.zip files.... or am I dreaming?

Cheers,

Alex.

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