Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:16:52 -0500 From: "Tsu-Fan Cheng" <tfcheng@gmail.com> To: "Gary Kline" <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: questions about some archive files, type *.rar Message-ID: <f84c38580812151216uf27a950p6ba18a9ca2fde9d3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20081215200949.GA48169@thought.org> References: <20081215200949.GA48169@thought.org>
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just use "unrar" under archivers in ports collection. dont have to cat all the rar files together, "unrar" can un-compress it in sequence and generate the original files. TFC On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote: > > guys, > > last friday i found a public domain "DVD-ROM" of books available > for free d/l. turns out there were 13 huge files in rar files. > I have all. can these be catted together and the "unrar"d to form > the original? > > Oh: there was another version using bit-torrent, but that was taking > a long LONG time and stalled, so next time is a question about this > stuff. note that the torrent file was also in *rar format, so i'm back to > the original quandry... > > if anybody knows what an rar file is, would you please hit me up with > a clue or two? > > tia, > > gary > > > > -- > Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix > http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org > The 2.12a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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