Re: Alternative archiving measures
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 04:37:52 -0400, RiverWind wrote:
> Might any of you know of any utilities that will decompress or convert
> archived files in "rar" format? The "unrar" utility that is pretty
> ubiquitous on Unix systems is not supported by Linux, or at least not
> the Debian distro. Consequently, to the best of my knowledge, the
> "unrar" utility can't be installed and/or used on a Linux system. I have
> gotten suggestions concerning certain utilities, but they were windows
> applications. Any help would be most sincerely appreciated.
"rar" and "unrar" utilities are both supported in Linux and Debian but I
would avoid using them in favor of an open compression tool/file formats
(such as bz2, lzma, gz, etc...)
Greetings,
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Camaleón
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