Re: Extracting compressed plugin files on a Mac..

Posted by Christopher Yip on Mar 28, 2008; 1:59am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Pressure-Sensitive-Film-analysis-tp3696755p3696760.html

the ".jar" file is a compressed format

I think you can open up a Terminal window and simply enter "jar xvf  
<filename>.jar"

That should expand it....just be sure you're in the right directory  
where the jar file is..




On Mar 27, 2008, at 9:52 PM, Joanne T. Vannah wrote:

> No - that doesn't work.  That is what I did initially.
> You need to extract the file to get into the subfiles:
> java. class ,etc since those are the only extensions
> Image J will recognize.
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> --- David Hovis <[hidden email]> wrote:
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>> On Mar 27, 2008, at 9:27 PM, Joanne T. Vannah wrote:
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>>> I am new to Macs and Image J ( a double whammy)...
>> I
>>> haven't been able to extract any compressed plugin
>>> files on my Mac. I am clicking on Finder > and
>> double
>>> clicking on compressed file > this should open the
>>> file but it is not.
>>>
>>> If there are any Mac users out there...  a quick
>> reply
>>> would be appreciated.
>>
>> If you are talking about .jar files, you don't need
>> to decompress
>> them.  Just copy them into the plugins folder.
>>
>> If you can't decompress .zip files, then you may
>> have a problem with
>> the OS service that handles such files.  In which
>> case you may need to
>> do an "Archive and Install..." restore of your OS
>> (I'm assuming MacOS
>> X, naturally).
>>
>> --David
>>
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