Re: Compatibility Issues With Windows Files
On Tue, 04 Oct 2011, RiverWind wrote:
> When attempting to extract "rar" files in either Linux or Unix, the
> file naming protocol seems to be a very crucial issue. To wit,
This is incorrect.
> should a file be fraught with open spaces, many Unix and Linux
> utilities will not work, because it seems that MS-Windows allows
Spaces need to be escaped on the command line shell, but that's it.
They're allowed anywhere. In fact, if anything, Linux allows too much.
> I am attempting to extract a large number of rar files using
> "unrar-free" with no success. I understand that it might be
unrar-free is useless. You will have to use the non-free one, or something
else that can deal with modern RAR archives.
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