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opening rar files
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Join Date: May 2002
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hi
i've been having a beast of a time trying to open a rar file.
am i right in thinking this is a linux file?
i've been attempting to us stuffit deluxe to open it to no avail, though i did not really expect this to work.
i am theorizing that i would need to use terminal but what good is a theory without the means to utilize the program...
sorry for the relative simplicity of the question...
ta!
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I had to download a rar expanding thingamajig. Hey that's actually a word!
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Sometimes rar won't even work and you need to get unAceX for .ace files. If I can't figure out what some file is (and its extension seems to be wrong), I usually run it against "file" in the Terminal.
Code:
[aorth@Alan-Orths-Computer: ~/Documents/xDonkey/Downloaded]$ file Derek\ Roddy-Drum\ Solo\ \(Hate\ Eternal\).txt
Derek Roddy-Drum Solo (Hate Eternal).txt: MPEG system stream data
See how I renamed this .mpg to be a .txt, and the system knows (well, Unix knows, but not Panther) that it's still MPEG data?
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The file command peeks at a file's header to try to figure out what sort of file it is. On old Unix systems where it originates there's not necessarily extensions or file system metadata telling you what things are.
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thankyou all for your help its much appreciated, i'll give it a go tonight!
(now to figure out what an iso file is...)
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Originally posted by Graymalkin:
The file command peeks at a file's header to try to figure out what sort of file it is. On old Unix systems where it originates there's not necessarily extensions or file system metadata telling you what things are.
It honestly doesn't hurt to try. I find that it works more often than not...
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Originally posted by atomised:
thankyou all for your help its much appreciated, i'll give it a go tonight!
(now to figure out what an iso file is...)
an ISO is typically a disk image of a CD.
reminds me of my old warez days...
unrar the ISO and burn a CD 
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ah thanks, i think i am beginning to understand.
its my first time having to navigate windows file business (xbox emulation related). i'm so used to using a mac...
thanks again those that have helped so far, i've had so much help over the years!
ta
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