[Discuss] WinRAR

[Dan Ritter]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 04:35:11PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On 06/10/2013 04:09 PM, Martin Owens wrote:
> >On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 15:29 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> >>and the data on my Linux system is in the
> >>same datacenter as the ftp server and the vCenter cluster.
> >use `unrar x filename.rar` you may either have to install the free unrar
> >library if it's a simple rar or the nonfree rar library if it's
> >something fancy. I've never had to unrar anything with the nonfree
> >version since the release of the free version no matter who the bar
> >steward is who sent me the rar files.
> >
> >Martin,
> >
> >
> >
> WinRAR is a completely different animule than the Unix/Linux rar,.
> In Linux a .rar file is an archive containing multiple files. In
> this case I have 44 .rar files each being a separate parts of 1
> directory.

Yes. Pass unrar the name of zeroth file in the group; it should
find the others in the same directory and reassemble
appropriately.

If using Debian or similar, you want unrar, not unrar-free.

-dsr-