Supported unusual format…
Well… Google. And a few minutes later, you know that, yes, you’ve probably downloaded the file you wanted and that it’s indeed an archive and, more importantly: it’s definitely in a weird format.
Turns out this .alz file is an archive format which is mainly popular in South Korea, as explained in the “supported unusual formats” section of the web page for The Unarchiver… Well, South Korea is really another world.
Thanks to this, the plain icon turned into a very nice one. And… I could open it.
Great utility, versatile and powerful. Simple and effective. And, as far as I know, the only one available right now, capable of decompressing this kind of file. It also runs on windows, but who cares? And Linux, which is more important.
I’ll have to donate something to Dag Ågren. It’s deserved.
And visit his website, the guy made an impressive list of useful and nice softwares, utilities, web applications, games and screen savers… and for technical types, the source code is provided for each project.
Now, to go back to the subject, the archive was 5.3 GB and the uncompressed folder is 5.3 GB. To be more precise, the archive was exactly 5 297 847 479 bytes, while the uncompressed folder is exactly 5 298 986 966 bytes. Only 1 139 487 bytes saved… that is about 1MB saved on a 5.3 GB folder. All this trouble, to save so few?
Anyway, I got the file I wanted.