Re: music maker

[Stephen Turner <sturner@myrealbox.com>]

On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 21:33, Roy Pluschke wrote:
> On January 29, 2004 06:05 am, Stephen Turner wrote:
> 
> > Hi R.J.P,
> >
> > Ok. thanks. but i install the unrar. tried unrar eaqpats12_fullxyz, but
> > i get a huge list of options. i tried -e -y but i keep getting the list
> > of options. This being the first i have even heard of unrar, what should
> > i do next?
> 
> Read the man page!! From "man unrar"
> 
> After  the  program name comes a command and then optional switches
> with dashes before them.  A summary of commands is included  below.
> For a complete description, run unrar without options.
> 
> therefore the command would be:
> 
> unrar e -y whatever.rar
> 
> the "e" being a command, the "-y" is a switch. It looks like whatever you 
> downloaded "eaqpats12_fullxyz" with might have stripped the ".rar" extension.
> You might have to tack it back on.
> 
> R.J.P.

Dear R.J.P,

Thanks for all your help. I finally got unrar to work. I did read the
man page. I did ' unrar -e -y xyz. that one dash made all the diffence.
Noteedit is up and running. So hopefully, that should be it. :)

Thanks again.
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