26 Nov
2019
26 Nov
'19
2:46 p.m.
Hi Guys,
On Tuesday 26 November 2019 14:26:54 Michael wrote:
On Monday 25 November 2019 06:05:34 pm Dave Lers
wrote:
First, thankyou to all that responded to my post asking about RAR
files. Lots of good info there.
I did download the latest RAR and UNRAR Version 5.8 beta4 and tried
with that. The best that I get is that it is not a RAR file and
there are no extractable files.
This gets weird because I can extract my older files without issue !
The chap that has sent me his RAR file has no problem opening the one
that I returned to him. He is a Windows user.
Using an editor and comparing the header code with a known good RAR it
seems quite different and has a number of references to Adobe, which
my old RAR files don't.
So I'm suspicious that this is a Windows thing.
Thanks all.
--
Best Regards:
Baron
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
RAR, shmar, so I can't read...
Who knew there are so many unpacking tool just for RAR. Hideous
non-free software should be made illegal! Here's a partial list *:
unar
unrar
unp
rar
lsar ?
p7zip
dnf
rar
* Blatantly stolen from:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/246535/how-to-open-rar-fil
e-in-linux On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 04:02:36PM -0600, Michael
wrote:
$ unrar x "*.rar" (CL extraction in rar dir) should tell you
something. If its broken, $ unrar x -kb "*.rar" will keep what it
can extract. See $ unrar h for more options.
AFAIK no significant changes have been made since 2013. On Monday 25 November 2019 01:53:35 pm Baron
wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> Does anybody know if the "RAR" format has changed ?
Possibly just broken? Try
tar -x --ignore-failed-read
RAR, not tar.