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Is it possible to make a portable zip utility?

Submitted by brillbillbo on May 9, 2006 - 5:43pm

Is it possible to make a portable Zip utility such as “Portable 7-Zip”? I know that Windows XP can now open Zips, but what if you have a Rar, or some other file that Windows can’t open. What do you do then? Or how many of you have been working on someone else’s pc, that doesn’t have XP on it and needed to open a file only to fined they haven’t got WinZip either. I know I have. In those situations when you haven’t got the internet at your disposal to download WinZip, a program like that would be invaluable. Can anyone out there make one...?

Puppy Linux

Submitted by jonfry on May 9, 2006 - 5:10pm

I've read a few requests / comments in these forums regarding a lightweight and portable Linux distribution.

One such distribution, which is already packaged ready for a USB key, is Puppy Linux (http://www.puppylinux.org) with a footprint of approximately 60MB.

A video exists showing how to mount Puppy Linux on a USB key (http://rhinoweb.us/howtomountausbkey.htm).

Puppy Linux's mission statement says:

* Puppy will easily install to USB, Zip or hard drive media.
* Booting from CD, Puppy will load totally into RAM so that the CD drive is then free for other purposes.
* Booting from CD, Puppy can save everything back to the CD, no need for a hard drive.

Portable application compatible with Exchange?

Submitted by BillDrew on May 9, 2006 - 4:31pm

Can anyone suggest a good open source e-mail client that I could install
as a portable application on my jump drive that would work with
Microsoft Exchange? I tried Thunderbird and it doesn't work well with
it. I can use Firefox with IE tabs to get to the web version of Outlook
but I would like to avoid that. Something that could import my
contacts, calendar, tasks would be great!

Wilfred (Bill) Drew
E-mail: mailto:drewwe@morrisville.edu
AOL Instant Messenger:BillDrew4
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin)

klik for Portable Apps?

Submitted by sblandin on May 8, 2006 - 3:42am

In this forum was mentioned klik, an application for Linux that allows to download and execute a program fom a single compressed file, containing all the dependencies needed.

Has anyone tought of something similar for the Portable Apps on this site? A sort of downloader/installer.

Portable JRE?

Submitted by mjpatey on May 7, 2006 - 9:53pm

Hello, Group-

I just wanted to put in a formal request for a portable version of the Java Runtime Environment. I use Portable Firefox while at work, and am unable to access content that requires Java (OK, mostly games!)

The computers at work don't have the JRE installed, and no one has administrative privileges except the IT department (who has indicated they're not planning to install the JRE on any systems).

Anyone else want portable Java, or know of any existing portable versions?

-Mark

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