On March 18, 2009, Bert Freudenberg wrote: <...>
Etoys is the only pre-installed activity that can open zip files. When you click on a zip file in the Journal, it opens in Etoys, and Etoys shows a little menu (probably in the upper-left corner):
I just read about content files - Maybe we can make a (temporary) olpc- extract.xo Content (xo) file that would open the zip in Etoys. Probably an overkill in terms of size?
The second menu option "extract all to ..." opens a dialog:
This is the folder that the files inside the zip will be extracted to. Choose "tmp" which is near the bottom:
Then press the "ok" button. This extracts the files to the folder named "/tmp".
To be able to read them, you need to copy them to the Journal. Quit Etoys, and open the "Terminal" activity. Type "cd /tmp" and "ls -l", and then use the "copy-to-journal" command to make the book appear in the Journal:
The "text/plain" part tells the Journal that this is a plain text file (because its file name ends with ".txt"). If the book is in a different format, you would have to tell the Journal a different type. For example "text/html" if the book name is ending in ".html" or "application/pdf" if it is ".pdf".
Hope this works for you, if not please report back.
- Bert -