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This wikiHow teaches you how to extract (or 'unzip') a ZIP folder's contents. Extracting files from a ZIP folder will decompress the files, allowing you to open and run them properly. You can easily unzip ZIP folders by using the built-in software on both Windows and Mac computers.

The calculator (see description) can be obtained from this website. The sections below describe how to do this for the Windows and Mac OS versions.

If you have trouble using one of the links below to download the files to a Windows machine, try right-clicking the link and selecting the 'Save target as' or similar option on the pop-up menu. This will allow you to download the file to your computer.

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The downloadable files are stored in an InstallShield file. InstallShield uses the Windows Installer service, which comes with all recent versions of Windows. You can simply download our InstallShield installation file by clicking on Calculator.msi (2,146,304 bytes).

If you would rather not use the Windows installation file, we provide an alternative version of the calculator setup package as a simple Winzip self-extracting file. It contains the same files as Calculator.msi, and installs them in the same place, but the Winzip version of the calculator setup package does not create desktop and start menu shortcuts, and does not allow for uninstallation from the Control Panel.

The 2021.1 version of the calculator and data, updated through 2020, can be downloaded by choosing the appropriate setup file in the following table.

Installation type

Install file

Comments

Windows Installer file

Calculator.msi (2,146,304 bytes)

Uses the Windows installer service, and creates shortcuts and Start Menu items.

Windows self-extracting zip file

anypia32z.exe (1,838,592 bytes)

Forget the Windows Installer! Just give me the files!

After downloading the calculator, install it by executing the downloaded file. The InstallShield dialog boxes will guide you through the installation process. When it is finished, you will have a folder named Calculator with 32 files: anypia32.exe, anypia32.chm, 29 sample files, and a readme file (readme.txt). The default location for the folder is in a folder named SSA, inside your Program Files folder. There will also be an entry in your Start Menu and an alias on your desktop for the benefit calculator. To start the calculator, choose it from the Start Menu, or click the alias on the desktop.

To uninstall the calculator, choose Settings, Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs from the Start menu. Highlight Social Security Benefit Calculator and click Remove.

Some people have encountered problems installing the detailed calculator on computers running Windows where the installation file is not allowed to write to the installation directory. If you encounter this problem, download the installation file to your machine as explained in the note above. Then try changing the installation directory from the default C:Program FilesSSA Benefit Calculator to a directory outside of Program Files such as C:SSA Benefit Calculator. This works for most people. If this doesn't work for you, contact us using the link below.

As an alternative, you can download the zip installation file, which should install without any problems. However, you will have to create your own shortcuts and start menu items if you do this.

The downloadable files are stored in a self-extracting archive. The 2021.1 version of the calculator and data, updated through 2020, is in the Anypia.dmg disk image file. Click on Anypia.dmg (10,302,872 bytes) to download the Mac OS version.

Install the calculator by expanding Anypia.dmg, which will create a disk image on your computer. Then run the Anypia.app program inside the disk image, which will prompt you to select a folder where you want the calculator installed. A folder called Benefit Calculator will be created in the folder you select. It contains 31 files: Anypia, 29 sample files, and a readme file (readme.txt). Start the calculator by double-clicking on Anypia.

The Benefit Calculator folder also contains two subfolders named html and images. The html subfolder contains about 400 help files in html format, divided among 12 subfolders. The images subfolder contains 17 .gif files used in the html files. Start your browsing of the help files with main_index.html in the html subfolder.

To uninstall the calculator, drag the Benefit Calculator folder to the trashcan.

Note that this Mac version will not work on a Mac running Lion or newer versions of the OS X operating system. We hope to produce a Mac version which will work on newer versions of OS X, but we have very limited resources to devote to that project at this time.

If you have questions or comments about the Detailed Calculator, please visit our Contact Social Security page for ways to contact us. Remember to use 'Detailed Calculator' as the subject so we know which calculator your question or comment refers to.

xar (short for eXtensible ARchive) is an open source file archiver and the archiver¡¯s file format. It was created within the OpenDarwin project and is used in Mac OS X 10.5 for software installation routines, as well as browser extensions in Safari 5.0. Xar replaced the use of gzipped pax files.

pkg is just .xar archives with a different extension and a specified file hierarchy. pkg is an OS X Installer file. This file format is used by Apple Inc. on its Macintosh line of computers and on the iPhone. It is also used by Sony PlayStation 3 on downloadable content over PlayStation Network. The contents of a PKG file can be installed using the Apple Installer application.

The XAR project aims to provide an easily extensible archive format. Important design decisions include an easily extensible XML table of contents for random access to archived files, storing the toc at the beginning of the archive to allow for efficient handling of streamed archives, the ability to handle files of arbitrarily large sizes, the ability to choose independent encodings for individual files in the archive, the ability to store checksums for individual files in both compressed and uncompressed form, and the ability to query the table of content's rich meta-data.

The XAR file format has three main regions, The Header, The Table of Contents, and The Heap. The header is a small binary data structure that identifies the file format (file magic). The table of contents is parsed as an XML document. The heap occupies the remainder of the file. Files' data are stored in the heap.

Files in xar are individually compressed. This allows for quick extraction of individual files without the extra disk space requirements and CPU usage of extracting the entire archive, as compared to a compressed tar archive. This makes xar useful for quick restores of accidentally deleted or overwritten files, from a backup archive. Additionally, this means xar can use different compression methods for each file in the archive. For instance, it might not be a good idea to try to try to compress an already compressed file, but a large file might benefit greatly from using bzip2, whereas a small text file would be better served to use gzip.

Open/Extract xar/pkg File on Windows

Easy 7-Zip opens/extracts xar/pkg file easily on Windows. The Easy 7-Zip was developed based on 7-Zip. 7-Zip is a famous open source file archiver. The Easy 7-Zip is an easy-to-use version of 7-Zip. The open source freeware keeps all features of 7-Zip and adds a few useful features that makes the software more user-friendly.

Easy 7-Zip works on Windows 10/8.1/8/7/Vista/2008/2003/XP/2000 (both 32-bit and 64-bit compatible).

  1. Free Download Easy 7-Zip
  2. Install Easy 7-Zip by step-by-step instructions
  3. The installation will associate xar/pkg with Easy 7-Zip automatically
  4. Double-click on xar/pkg file to open xar/pkg file with Easy 7-Zip

  5. You will see files or folders within the xar/pkg file then, click button Extract to extract the xar/pkg file.
  6. Alternatively, Right-click on xar/pkg file on Windows Explorer

  7. And then, choose Extract files..., Extract Here, or Extract to 'folder' to extract the xar/pkg file.
  8. Done

Easy 7-Zip Download Links:

Open/Extract xar/pkg File on Mac

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You can open pkg file directly on Mac. If you want to extract xar/pkg you need to install extra software. B1 Free Archiver opens/extracts xar/pkg file on Mac. B1 Free Archiver is a free software for creating archive folder and extracting archive file. B1 Archiver works on all platforms - Windows, Linux, Mac and Android. The freeware supports most popular formats including xar/pkg.

B1 Free Archiver is compatible with:

  • Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks
  • Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
  • Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
  • Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

Open/Extract xar/pkg File on Linux

You need to install xar on Linux.

# wget https://xar.googlecode.com/files/xar-1.5.2.tar.gz
# tar zxvf xar-1.5.2.tar.gz
# cd xar-1.5.2
# ./configure
# make
# make install

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If an error 'configure: error: Cannot configure without xml2-config' occurs when running configure, please install libxml2-dev. On Debian, type:

# apt-get install libxml2-dev

List folders and files in xar/pkg:

$ xar -tf archive.xar
$ xar -tf archive.pkg

Open/Extract xar/pkg file with xar on Linux:

$ xar -xvf archive.xar
$ xar -xvf archive.pkg

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xar command options:

  • -t: Lists an archive
  • -x: Extracts an archive
  • -v: Print filenames as they are archived
  • -f: Specifies an archive to operate on

Alternatively, you can use p7zip to extract xar/pkg file. p7zip is the Unix command-line port of 7-Zip.

Install p7zip-full on CentOS and Fedora

# yum install p7zip-full
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Install p7zip-full on Debian and Ubuntu

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$ sudo apt-get install p7zip-full

List directories and files in xar/pkg file

$ 7z l archive.xar
$ 7z l archive.pkg

Extract xar/pkg file with p7zip on Linux

$ 7z x archive.xar
$ 7z x archive.pkg

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