Mail Archives: opendos/2002/02/15/21:01:26
No, there exists a peculiar file compression program that produces files
with an ".rar" extension. One of the correspondents here insists on
using it, even though he's been told on a number of occasions that it is
a.) proprietary. b.) it is so uncommon that many people don't have a
program to "un-rar" the files, but c.) he continues to use and send out
files using the RAR compression method.
Perhaps someone can "un-rar" it for you, and "zip" it up. Considering
that this discussion has been hashed over several times in the past,
with exactly the same result, I douubt that he'll change to something else.
FWIW, he claims that RAR compresses files "...better...", and therefore
we should all switch. It's been suggested to him that the benchmarking
tests upon which he bases his arguments is hardly a reason to switch
away from a long-time standard that *IS* open-source.
I doubt that any of this makes any difference to the poster of the file.
Mark in Clinton TWP. MI wrote:
>Hello,
> I also recieved this but I'm not certain what to do with a "ror" file?
>Is that a windows extendtion?
> I thought that this would likely be a exe or com file that could be run
>from dos and would axcess the windows clipboard in either 3.1 or 95?
> Is that incorrect?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
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