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I require to change the extension to zip because i want to store them on my windows computer and need to be able to read them, using winrar.

WinRAR has no trouble at all with tar.gz (or tar.bz2, I think). If you change the extension to zip, you might actually be creating a problem, since the type of compression used is different.

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anyway i could type in where to place it when i give it a name? on creation?

Probably. I imagine it would probably work if you used a full path as the filename.
I couldn't say for sure, though. I don't know anything about emelfm

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If you change the extension to zip, you might actually be creating a problem, since the type of compression used is different.

well after compressing it to a .tar.gz file it worked fine and since winrar opens them mission complete

Thanks

i'll jsut stick to doing that

I mean like that way i can host them on my linux box and download them on my windows for back-ups

thank you so much
and thanks to EVERYONe that helped

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I mean like that way i can host them on my linux box and download them on my windows for back-ups

Check out the "June extensions" thread in "The Testing Area"; there's a lot on backups, including a script.

...and WinZip (11.0) can read .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 files on my W2K machine

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messages saying permission denided

Looks like the zip stuff is sorted out, but for future reference you can just run gtkfind using sudo from a terminal:
sudo gtkfind & exit

Then just use the wildcard search for *.zip (if I read your earlier question the way you meant it).

BTW, none of my Windows archive utilities -- winrar, 7zip, winzip -- have any problem with tar.gz or tar.bz2:
http://www.rarlab.com/otherfmt.htm

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