World: r3wp

Azureus - very good Java based client with all stuff needed - auto-updting 
etc., nice and responsive GUI. I wonder if REBOL would handle such 
app :-)

Except networking I am sure it would do so ...

The live CD site and the other Scandinavian sites are down due to 
a double hard disk failure

What AtheOS site are you trying? The original atheos.cx domain and 
site are hijacked by some thug selling drugs. Our archive of the 
original site was on the Scandinavian server, so it's down

I think you guys are making the cost of entry too high.

How so?

the iso image is compressed with bz2, and now I have to find a japanese 
web site that has lzarc to decompress the bloody thing

It's like a website -- two clicks and I'm out.

BZip2 is very common nowadays. 7Zip does it, for example

If you give up on an operating system if it takes more than two clicks, 
you're not in our target audience

Arrgg... I remember, you're the guy who gives people things in compressed 
format that no one has by default!

Yup :-)

what? Special kind of archiver? Hey guys, get a clue, what you think? 
:-)

becuase such screws I almost always refuse to try new stuff ...

But seriously, I don't know why you would need something odd like 
lzarc

It defeats the purpose of having an iso image.  To make it easy.

You've already pushed a lot more keys here than the two clicks you 
say you're willing to invest ;-)

that goes the same for .rip - fine format - bug ugly .... I want 
to enter all common archives as a directory of some kind ... so I 
want rebol to handle .zip and get rid of .rip

I have windows which has zip support, and I have Dopus for windows. 
 I had to download lharc support the other day.

bug = but

Rip .. crazy.

you change the filename, and it won't decompress anymore!

Graham, I thought you ran Linux and BSD?

Nope, I run XP.

I never got BSD to run properly.

And I only set up servers to run linux.

Then you're most likely to use 7Zip, which does BZip2 IIRC

I simply want my file manager (Total commander) to treat it natively, 
and it does so for .zip, .arj, .rar and probably others - the same 
goes for ftp - just normal as a directory ... so my-file: read %/C/some-dir/some-zip.zip/my-file.r 
:-)

All Unixes have bzip2 installed, most common format after gzip

Yeah, but are Linux users your target audience??

I'm not sure but doesn't Rebol use a version of Bzip for it's compression 
routines?

Yes

ZLib, I think

I would be interested to see how many bytes are saved by using bz2 
vs zip.

Lzarc is 3Mb.

I don't know lzarc; what is it? It's certainly far less common than 
bzip2 and 7Zip

suports: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CDI, 
CAB, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, 
MBF, MDF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, 
TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO

http://www.izarc.org/index.html

it's an izarc and not Lzarc .. misread it.

7Zip is only 1 MB, has a normal English web site and is open source

http://www.7-zip.org

BZip2 compresses quite a bit better than Zip, and the CDs are fairly 
big, so...

Original archive was 34.7 Mb, and recompressed with zip was 45.2 
Mb.

Howver, the time taken to search for a bzip2 decompressor, download 
and install, and then decompress was longer than the time it would 
have taken to download the extra 10Mb.  Maybe offer people  the choice 
of what archive they want.

Well, you could always seed a Bittorrent tracker with that Zip you 
made

This is a DIY project. We don't even produce the live CD ourselves

You might want to get someone to check the english.  It says "loginning 
in... "

I guess I need to read some docs, as there are two accounts - one 
user and one root.  Both require passwords.  I guessed the user account 
password of "guest".  Didn't know what the root password was.  Reached 
a low res screen, and network chipset not detected ( using a Centrino 
chipset ).

there really is people who can't decompress bz2? :P

WinRAR can. the bzip2 utility can be downloaded for windows too. 
(you don't have wget? diff? bzip2? shame on you :P)