Re: Opening .rar files

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Tim wrote:
Wong Kwok-hon:
How about to compress to RAR ? Which software can ?

Kevin Kofler:
Don't.
1. By using RAR, you help spreading a proprietary format which cannot
be opened with Free Software. (All the decompressors I've seen are
derived from the original non-Free unrar.)
2. You have to use a proprietary program to compress, too.
3. You even have to pay to use said compressor legally. ...[snip]...

I agree, the original poster has already experienced annoyances at
having to do something to unpack yet another archive format, why subject
yet another person to the same thing?  The first time I had to deal with
a RAR file on Windows, it was a right pain.  It was even worse when I
had to deal with one on Linux, the first time around.

RAR's supposed to have some good features, particularly to do with
sending large files as a split set of archives, but I doubt that it's
going to be significantly better at it than other schemes.


I would love an open source program that does what RAR files do. With the addition of PAR2 files, the RAR files or compressed files can be repaired.

I would love a tool that does RAR with PGP built in. Any programmers out there?

The problem is RAR is used heavily in usenet. RAR is not only a compression tool but a splitter and a great archiving tool.

FWIW, there is a rpm "par2cmdline" that generates and works with par2 files. This is part of Fedora.

I have unrar from livna.


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