Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

[Gabriel <nqtnn.gabo@gmail.com>]

Oliver Lupton wrote:

On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 23:02:50 -0300
Gabriel <nqtnn.gabo@gmail.com> wrote:

  

Does anyone know a free software alternative to RAR???
    

Use 'tar' combined with gzip or bzip2 to create a .tar.gz or .tar.bz2
man tar, man bzip2 and man gzip for more info :)

HTH

-ol 


  

yeah, I know that, but I was talking about a program to decompress RAR files... I know I don't really need it, but today a friend sent me a rar file and I needed to tell  him to recompress it as zip and send it again... (of course that the first thing he did was talk about the dis-advantages  of using GNU/Linux...)
So I want it so the next time it happens I won't give anyone the chance to defame GNU =P


sorry for the bad english

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Gabriel Parrondo