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Path: ...!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: =?UTF-8?B?RG9u4oCZdA==?= Bother With Proprietary .RAR Compression Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 01:29:32 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 23 Message-ID: <v2jhps$qocj$2@dont-email.me> References: <v2jhdi$rilj$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 03:29:33 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6c7b34994b751bb956b5935940e61138"; logging-data="876947"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Q4l4jKPcDZpySlx3XAYEF" User-Agent: Pan/0.158 (Avdiivka; 9555b5e; Linux-6.9.1) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZrbgjYKeAwFbcBFhP15f/ARe208= X-Face: \}2`P"_@pS86<'EM:'b.Ml}8IuMK"pV"?FReF$'c.S%u9<Q#U*4QO)$l81M`{Q/n XL'`91kd%N::LG:=*\35JS0prp\VJN^<s"b#bff@fA7]5lJA.jn,x_d%Md$,{.EZ Bytes: 2134 On Wed, 22 May 2024 01:22:58 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <v2jhdi$rilj$1@dont-email.me>: > Every now and then, I come across download archives in this .RAR format. > The formats have different versions: v4 and lower can be extracted with > Free Software tools like unar <https://theunarchiver.com/command-line>, > while v5 needs a non-Free tool. > > A few times now, when I come across a v5 RAR archive, I try > recompressing it with 7-zip <https://7-zip.org/>, and so far, the .7z > version of archive has always been smaller. And 7-zip is Free Software! > > So there is no point to using the proprietary format: avoid it. Haven't used those in a long while, but I seem to remember they had a companion type of file, ".par", which could be used to check archive integrity, as well as fill in missing .rar parts. Didn't know newer versions were proprietary. You might have better luck with unrar(1) if you're trying to get an an archive. -- -v